Civil Rights Leader Patricia Stephens Due Dies at 72

"In 1960, as a 20-year-old college student and founding member of the local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, Due, her sister, Priscilla, and three other Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University students were arrested for sitting at a Woolworth lunch counter. Their decision to spend 49 days in jail rather than pay fines marked one of the first 'jail-ins' during the civil rights movement. . ."

Martin Luther King Article

"No Christian played a more prominent role in the 20th century's most significant social justice movement."

A Forgotten Contribution

"Rosa Parks's name is known round the world, but what about Claudette Colvin? On March 2, 1955, nine months before Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., a skinny, 15-year-old schoolgirl was yanked by both wrists and dragged off a very similar bus."

Dartmouth's Historic Choice

"Dartmouth College on Monday named Jim Yong Kim as its next president. Kim is chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University, previously led the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS program, holds degrees in anthropology and medicine, and has won numerous honors, including the MacArthur "genius" fellowship."

Harriet Beecher Stowe Article

"When President Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1863, he is reported to have said, 'So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!'"

Frederick Douglass Article

"Slave-turned-abolitionist Frederick Douglass crusaded against the 'soul-destroying religion' of the slaveholders."

The Seedbed of Martin Luther King Jr.'s, Greatest Speech

"'I have a dream … .' This simple collocation of four words has become one of the most instantly recognized quotations of all time. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s trademark refrain is frequently borrowed the world over by journalists, preachers, politicians, screenwriters, and other communicators seeking to convey to their readers and listeners certain visions to be actualized. It marked the high point of a grand and powerful speech delivered in the heart of his country's capital, at a time of wrenching national soul-searching. . . ."