Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's protest strategies of nonviolence and civil disobedience, in 1942 a gro ...View More
Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis dies
On July 17, 2020, in the midst of a pandemic and a time of unparalleled racial tensions in the Unite ...View More
Fukushima nuclear disaster
On March 11, 2011, the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan causes massive devastation, and the ...View More
First confirmed case of COVID-19 found in U.S.
Following a rapid spread from its origin in Wuhan, China, the first U.S. case of the 2019 novel coro ...View More
Martin Luther King, Jr. is jailed; writes "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
On April 3, 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his Southern Christian Leadership Conference ...View More
2020: The Year in Events
ContentsCOVID-19 Changed the World ForeverPolitics and World EventsRace and Social JusticeCulture an ...View More
Civil rights protesters beaten in “Bloody Sunday” attack
On March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, a 600-person civil rights demonstration ends in viole ...View More
"The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan is published
Though perhaps not the typical housewife—she had been involved in radical politics from a young age ...View More
Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks at UN, justifies US invasion of Iraq
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell gives a speech to the United Nations that is both highly conseq ...View More
Punic Wars, between Rome and Carthage, come to an end
On February 5, 146 BCE, the Roman Republic finally triumphed over its nemesis, Carthage, after over ...View More
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