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In 1969, Maya Angelou published *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* with Random House, her first book. In it, she told the world what...
On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million people stood before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., waiting for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
In 1969, Random House published a memoir that would reshape American literature. Maya Angelou's *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* told the world what...
On August 28, 1963, a quarter million people stood shoulder to shoulder along the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., their faces turned toward the Lincoln...
In 1969, Random House published *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*, Maya Angelou's unflinching memoir of growing up Black in the segregated South. The...
On August 28, 1963, Mahalia Jackson stood before a quarter of a million people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial and sang "I Been 'Buked and...
In Selma, Alabama, in early 1965, only about two percent of eligible Black citizens in Dallas County were registered to vote. The barrier was not...
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson sat in the President's Room of the U.S. Capitol, the same ornate chamber where Abraham Lincoln had...
On March 7, 1965, six hundred men and women lined up two abreast at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They carried no weapons....