In the 1912 Olympics, Jim Thorpe, a Native American, Won Two Gold Medals With Shoes Someone Had Thrown in the Trash
This is Jim Thorpe (May 22 or 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953). He was the first Native American to win a gold medal for...
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Zong slave ship trial
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Hearing arguments in the case of the Zong, a slave ship, the Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in London states that a massacre of...
Leusden Slave Ship Tragedy
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The history of this slave ship has gone almost entirely unnoticed until now. This is remarkable given that its final voyage ended in the single...
The Zong massacre
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In August 1781, a British slave ship, the Zong, left Ghana with 442 slaves aboard – twice the number it was designed to carry –...
Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ Speech
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This is the full text of Enoch Powell’s so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, which was delivered to a Conservative Association meeting in Birmingham on April...
How an Enslaved African Man in Boston Helped Save Generations from Smallpox
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The news was terrifying to colonists in Massachusetts: Smallpox had made it to Boston and was spreading rapidly. The first victims, passengers on a ship...
James Marion Sims
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Few medical doctors have been as lauded—and loathed—as James Marion Sims. Credited as the “father of modern gynecology,” Sims developed pioneering tools and surgical techniques...
Donald E. Wilson
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Physician and academic administrator Dr. Donald E. Wilson was born on August 28, 1936, in Worcester, Massachusetts to Rivers and Licine Wilson. He attended Dix...
Tilahun D. Yilma
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Tilahun D. Yilma is a Distinguished Professor of Virology in the School of Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California,...
Dr. Moses Wharton Young
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Dr. Moses Wharton Young was born in Spartansburg, S.C., in 1903 and moved to the Washington area in 1924. He graduated from Howard University, where...