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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 April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali stood inside the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston, Texas, and did the most costly thing a...
On May 2, 1963, hundreds of Black children filed out of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, singing hymns and walking straight toward waiting...
On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. almost did not return to Memphis. His first visit in late March had ended in violence —...
In May 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from the Arizona Cardinals and a $3.6 million contract to enlist in the United States Army. Eight months...
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 April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali stood at the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston, Texas, and refused to step forward. When the...
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...
In 1951, fourteen-year-old James Harrison lay in a hospital bed in New South Wales, Australia, recovering from major chest surgery that required thirteen liters of...
The Georgia Dome roared with 32,000 voices on July 23, 1996, as eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug stood at the end of the vault runway in Atlanta....
On March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis tucked an apple, a toothbrush, and two books into his backpack before walking to the Edmund Pettus Bridge...
On December 23, 1954, Ronald Herrick did something no healthy person had ever done before. He lay down on an operating table at Peter Bent...
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 stand. Moments earlier,...
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 March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis stood at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent...
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 30, 1956, a stick of dynamite exploded on the front porch of Martin Luther King Jr.'s parsonage in Montgomery, Alabama. His wife Coretta...
In the spring of 2002, the Arizona Cardinals offered their starting safety Pat Tillman a three-year, $3.6 million contract. By every measure of the world,...
On the morning of April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali stood inside the Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station in Houston, Texas. He was twenty-five years...
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...
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 the night of December 1, 1955, word spread through Montgomery, Alabama, that Rosa Parks — a seamstress and NAACP secretary — had been arrested...
On the morning of May 4, 1961, thirteen volunteers gathered at a Greyhound terminal in Washington, D.C. Before boarding two interstate buses bound for New...