Overlooked History

Influenced by civil rights and the feminist movement, we wanted rights and we wanted respect.

Si Spiegel invented the artificial Christmas tree.

Imagine!

Pauli Murray didn’t believe in an incremental approach.

In many ways, young people are uniquely vulnerable to exploitation.

The radical organizer saw Black dignity and power as essential.

Many Americans may be unfamiliar with the history of the Wilmington Massacre.

Black queer women in the South organized these events during the AIDS crisis.

In 1989, five Southeast Asian children were killed in a California schoolyard.

Until her death, Martha Mitchell was defamed, discredited, and ridiculed.

Keller was an activist who was under FBI surveillance for most of her life.

The group achieved victories for health care access in New York and beyond.

Honestly.

Young punks found refuge in DC’s refugee community.

It all started with a black armband.

Fannie Lou Hamer always worked closely with young activists.

They’re part of a much bigger phenomenon.

Emma Tenayuca organized the largest strike in San Antonio history.

The justices ruled against the reproductive rights of people deemed “genetically inferior."

The bodies of thousands of Indigenous children have been discovered at schools in the U.S. and Canada.