A historic effort in the summer of 1964 to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states.
Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Hurston collected folklore throughout the South and Caribbean — reclaiming, honoring and celebrating Black life on its own terms.
Leonarde Keeler, the inventor of the Keeler Polygraph, spent most of his life trying to tell if people were telling the truth. It turned out to be trickier than hooking them up to a machine.
William Marston falsely claimed to have invented the lie detector test. The truth about his life was a whole lot wilder than that—and it led to the invention of the most famous female comic book character ever.
