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On September 11, 2001, Rick Rescorla stood in the stairwell of the World Trade Center's South Tower with a bullhorn in hand and a lifetime...
On April 19, 1960, Diane Nash stood on the steps of Nashville's courthouse and looked Mayor Ben West in the eye. The twenty-two-year-old Fisk University...
On September 11, 2001, when the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, the Port Authority broadcast a message to everyone...
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Rick Rescorla stood on the forty-fourth floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower and did what he...
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer was not a soldier. He was a thirty-two-year-old account manager from Cranbury, New Jersey — a...
On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 lifted off from New York's LaGuardia Airport with 155 souls aboard, bound for Charlotte, North Carolina. Barely...
On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger lifted US Airways Flight 1549 off the runway at LaGuardia Airport with 155 souls aboard. Ninety seconds...
On August 28, 1963, Dorothy Height stood on the platform at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington. She was surrounded by the most...
At 9:28 on the morning of September 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was thirty-five thousand feet above eastern Ohio when four hijackers seized control of...
At 9:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer, a thirty-two-year-old account manager from Cranbury, New Jersey, learned the terrible truth aboard United Flight 93....
In 1957, Dorothy Height stepped into the presidency of the National Council of Negro Women in Washington, D.C., inheriting an organization founded by Mary McLeod...
In 1937, a twenty-five-year-old social worker named Dorothy Height walked into a meeting at the Harlem YWCA and met Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of...
On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger had been flying for forty-two years. He started in a Cessna 172 at age sixteen, flew F-4...
In the winter of 1960, Diane Nash and dozens of Fisk University students sat down at segregated lunch counters across downtown Nashville. They ordered coffee....
On February 13, 1960, Diane Nash — a twenty-one-year-old Fisk University student from Chicago — walked into a downtown Nashville lunch counter with dozens of...