On June 23, 1940, Gold Medal champion Wilma Rudolph was born in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee. Rudolph broke American female Olympic records by becoming the...
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (/djuːˈbɔɪs/ dew-BOYSS; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American-born Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil...
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning...