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In 1944, Medgar Evers landed at Normandy as a nineteen-year-old soldier, fighting for the freedom of people he had never met. He came home to...
On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying Freedom Riders was firebombed outside Anniston, Alabama. In Birmingham, riders were beaten with pipes and chains while...
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...
On December 5, 1955, four days after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus, more...
On May 11, 2018, eighty-one-year-old James Harrison sat in a reclining chair at the Town Hall Blood Donor Centre in Sydney, Australia, and rolled up...
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....
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...
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, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis knelt in prayer, then stood and walked straight into suffering. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,...
On the evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stepped onto the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He had...
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day stitching seams at the Montgomery Fair department...
On October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos stepped onto the Olympic medal podium in Mexico City wearing only black socks — no shoes....
On the evening of April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before a crowd at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. He had come to...
On May 2, 1963, the doors of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama swung open, and a stream of children poured into the streets....
On May 2, 1963, over a thousand young people poured out of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, singing freedom songs as they marched...
Just after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile in the driveway of his home at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander...
On September 16, 1965, Cesar Chavez stood before a gathering of farmworkers in a dusty hall in Delano, California, and called for a vote. Eight...
On December 23, 1954, twenty-three-year-old Ronald Herrick lay on an operating table at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, perfectly healthy, waiting to be cut...
On September 8, 1965, Filipino grape pickers in Delano, California, walked off the fields. Led by Larry Itliong, these workers from the Agricultural Workers Organizing...
On December 5, 1955, forty thousand Black commuters in Montgomery, Alabama, woke before dawn and did something extraordinary — they walked. The day before, Rosa...
On December 23, 1954, Dr. Joseph Murray stood over twenty-three-year-old Richard Herrick in an operating room at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and attempted...
On May 4, 1961, thirteen people — seven Black, six white — boarded a Greyhound bus in Washington, D.C., and headed south. Organized by James...
On May 11, 2018, eighty-one-year-old James Harrison walked into an Australian Red Cross Blood Service center in Sydney and rolled up his sleeve for the...
On October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the medal podium at the Mexico City Olympics — Smith with gold, Carlos with...