Stories That Shaped America

The Freedom Riders (FR) was a group of diverse civil rights activists, many of whom were young college students organized ...

Masayuki G. Shigehira, 3rd Battalion L Company
Private First Class. "Go For Broke" (Motto)

"Spit Fire" (Motto)

In October 1963 Yuri Kochiyama, a survivor of the American concentration camps of WWII established for Japanese Americans...

In 1965, thirty-nine-year-old, white social justice warrior Viola Gregg Liuzzo, Detroit wife, and mother of five young children...

Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) was a retail pioneer, philanthropist, and president of Sears, Roebuck & Co..

Long before Emmett Till, there was 14-year-old George Stinney, Jr., brutally killed on June 16, 1944, in Alcolu, South Carolina.

Dr. George Franklin Grant born in Oswego, NY where he attended school until he entered Harvard in 1868.

Reverend James J. Reeb, a white Civil Rights ally and 38-year-old Unitarian Universalist minister and social worker, husband...

Rosewood was once a prosperous and self-sufficient community. Everything changed on New Year's Day 1923.

Zitkála-Šá (1876-1938) was a Native American writer, musician, and activist of the Yankton Dakota Sioux.

Marian Anderson was arguably the best contralto of her era.

A Civil Rights icon who endured state-sanctioned brutality including being given a "Mississippi "Appendectomy" also known as a hysterectomy without her permission.

In 1920, the Ku Klux Klan, in full Klan regalia, marched with crosses in the small Black community of Ocoee, FL, threatening Black men who dared to vote.

Prior to Brown v. Bd of Educ...