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On the evening of September 30, 1962, James Meredith sat in a dormitory room at the University of Mississippi while a mob of over two...
On a July night in 1958, Sheriff Garnett Brooks and two deputies burst into a bedroom in Caroline County, Virginia, flashlights cutting through the darkness....
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom....
In 1987, a twenty-seven-year-old Harvard medical student named Paul Farmer made a choice that baffled his peers. Rather than chase a lucrative career in Boston,...
On March 16, 1968, twenty-four-year-old helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson Jr. flew low over the village of My Lai in South Vietnam's Quang Ngai Province. What...
In September 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley stood in a Chicago funeral home and made a decision that would change a nation. Her fourteen-year-old son, Emmett, had...
On the evening of October 16, 1968, the Mexico City Olympic stadium fell into a stunned hush. Tommie Smith and John Carlos, American sprinters who...
On February 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela stepped through the gates of Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, South Africa, his fist raised, his wife Winnie's hand...
On December 9, 1952, Thurgood Marshall stood before the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court to argue Brown v. Board of Education of...
On September 3, 1955, Mamie Till-Bradley stood beside the open casket of her fourteen-year-old son, Emmett, at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ on...
On March 21, 1965, approximately 3,200 marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, walking toward the state capitol in Montgomery. They...
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., under a late-summer sky. They had marched for jobs...
In the fall of 1950, Oliver Brown walked his seven-year-old daughter Linda to Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, and tried to enroll her. The...
In September 1950, Oliver Brown took his seven-year-old daughter Linda by the hand and walked seven blocks from their home in Topeka, Kansas, to Sumner...
On April 12, 1963 — Good Friday — Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for leading nonviolent protests against segregation. Placed in...
On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and took a seat in the first row...
On December 1, 1955, seamstress Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus after a long day at the Montgomery Fair department store. She sat...
On February 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela walked through the gates of Victor Verster Prison in Paarl, South Africa, a free man after twenty-seven years behind...
On February 11, 1990, thousands gathered outside Victor Verster Prison in Paarl, South Africa, straining for a glimpse of something many had stopped believing possible....
Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers pulled into the driveway of his home on Guynes Street in Jackson, Mississippi. The NAACP field...
On September 8, 1965, Filipino grape workers walked off the vineyards of Delano, California. Led by Larry Itliong, they refused to keep harvesting table grapes...
In 1944, Pauli Murray graduated first in her class from Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. She applied to Harvard Law School for...
On April 12, 1963 — Good Friday — police arrested Martin Luther King Jr. on the streets of Birmingham, Alabama. Days earlier, eight white clergymen...