Nearly two decades before the NBA, a team of African American basketball players from Chicago began touring the Midwest as the Harlem Globetrotters.
Just two months before Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot in Los Angeles, he delivered the news of Dr. King’s assassination to a crowd in Indianapolis.
In 1961, the Freedom Riders were arrested and sent to Mississippi’s Parchman Prison.
In 1925, the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes pit traditional Christian beliefs against evolution.
Max Schmeling convinced the U.S. Olympic Committee to attend the 1936 Olympic games.
In 1898, the Supreme Court ruled that Wong Kim Ark had acquired U.S. citizenship at birth.
The Hawaiian people had done everything in their power not to be annexed by the United States.
The first white Americans to settle in the Islands arrived in the 1820s.
Who is this? Our team turned to Facebook, then headed to Memphis to find out.
The law school grad was just 24 when he was handed the position of running the “Radical Division” at the Justice Department.
After a bomb exploded at his own home, A. Mitchell Palmer created what came to be known as the “Radical Division” within the Justice Department.
The Gilded Age entrepreneur was determined to have a workplace that was guided by the golden rule.
