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On the night of June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers heard the crack of a rifle outside her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She rushed out and...
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 the morning of May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister nearly stayed home. Wind gusted across the Iffley Road Track in Oxford, England, and the twenty-five-year-old...
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 August 3, 1992, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final at the Barcelona Olympics. He had trained for years, overcome multiple...
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, demanding voting rights. They made it only to...
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....
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 May 8, 1980, the Thirty-Third World Health Assembly declared in Geneva what no generation before had dared believe: smallpox — a disease that killed...
In May 1952, Rosalind Franklin positioned a fine fiber of hydrated DNA before an X-ray beam in her laboratory at King's College London. The exposure...
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano needed help just to reach the podium at Madison Square Garden. The former NC State basketball coach — the...
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 the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford stepped off a city bus in Little Rock, Arkansas, wearing a crisp black-and-white dress her...
On September 25, 1957, nine Black teenagers walked into Little Rock's Central High School under the protection of twelve hundred soldiers from the 101st Airborne...
On the night of September 30, 1962, the University of Mississippi campus erupted into violence. Thousands of rioters hurled bricks, fired guns, and overturned cars...
On January 30, 1956, a stick of dynamite exploded on the front porch of Martin Luther King Jr.'s parsonage in Montgomery, Alabama. His wife Coretta...
On October 9, 2012, a Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Mingora, Pakistan, and demanded, "Which one of you is Malala?" Then he fired...
On May 8, 1980, the Thirty-Third World Health Assembly stood and did something unprecedented — they declared that humanity had defeated smallpox forever. A disease...
On May 8, 1980, delegates at the Thirty-Third World Health Assembly in Geneva rose to affirm what had never before been true in human history:...
On December 5, 1955, over 40,000 Black residents of Montgomery, Alabama, refused to ride the city buses. What began as a one-day protest after Rosa...
In June 1966, Pauli Murray sat among delegates at the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington, D.C., frustrated by...
On July 23, 1996, eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug stood at the end of the vault runway in Atlanta's Georgia Dome, barely able to put weight on...
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, heading east toward Montgomery to demand the right...
On April 11, 1962, the New York Mets lost their very first game. They would lose 119 more that season, finishing 40-120 — the worst...