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All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day.
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The pivotal discoveries, visionary inventors and natural phenomena that impacted history.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. That same night, Robert F. Kennedy delivered the devastating news of King’s death to a group of African American supporters at a campaign rally. This is audio and video from that event.
Learn about the life and work of Civil Rights activist and two-time presidential candidate Jesse Jackson in this video.
How did George Washington Carver bring science to the Tuskegee Institute?
Bayard Rustin, a key advisor to MLK Jr., helped plan the 1963 March on Washington but had to work in the shadows as a gay man.
In the 1950s, more than 40,000 citizens of Montgomery, Alabama, boycotted the city's segregated bus service for 381 days.