HISTORYflipped into StoriesPoor People's Campaign When a Tent City Occupied D.C. for Six Weeks in 1968 to Protest Poverty history.com - Nadra Kareem Nittle Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign took protest to a whole new level in 1968 with a tent city that operated as a town. They began …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesTitle IX How Title IX Transformed Women's Sports history.com - Sarah Pruitt The groundbreaking gender equity law made a lasting impact by increasing the participation of girls and women in athletics. Title IX, the landmark …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHorse Racing 10 Famous Horse Racing Scandals history.com - Sara Kettler From race-fixing and horse switches to performance-enhancing drugs, some will do whatever it takes to see their horse cross the finish line …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesSexuality How Greg Louganis' Olympic Diving Accident Forced a Conversation About AIDS history.com - Amanda Onion During a time when fear and stigma around AIDS and LGBTQ identity were pervasive, Louganis kept his diagnosis secret until years later. Greg Louganis …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesJesse Owens How Jesse Owens Foiled Hitler's Plans for the 1936 Olympics history.com - Tim Ott The African American track star hardly derailed Nazi plans for global disruption, but Jesse Owens did emerge as the standout figure of the Fuhrer's …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesBaseball How World War II Spurred a Decade of Women’s Pro Baseball history.com - Becky Little The league was supposed to be temporary, but went on for 12 seasons. When the United States entered World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt made it clear …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesJoe Kennedy Inside RFK's Funeral Train: How His Final Journey Helped a Nation Grieve history.com - Steven M. Gillon The New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners. On June 8, 1968, a 21-car train carried the body of …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesWater Polo ‘Blood in the Water’: The Cold War Olympic Showdown Between Hungary and the USSR history.com - Dave Roos Just weeks before the match, Soviet tanks and troops brutally crushed the short-lived Hungarian Revolution. There are two layers to every water polo …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHenry Ford How American Icon Henry Ford Fostered Anti-Semitism history.com - Becky Little The man known for changing the auto industry also used his immense power and influence to quash unions, control immigrant workers and vilify Jewish …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesBillie Jean King How Billie Jean King Led the Equal Pay for Play Battle history.com - Rachel Chang From the start, the 39-time Grand Slam winner showed that she wasn’t just an ace on the tennis courts, but also in the long fight for gender …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesRace & Ethnicity Why Mixed-Race Children in Post-WWII Germany Were Deemed a ‘Social Problem’ history.com - Alexis Clark As racism impacted both sides of the Atlantic, ‘Brown Babies’, the children born to Black GIs and white European women, faced an uncertain …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesMedical Conditions How AIDS Activists Used ‘Die-Ins’ to Demand Attention to the Growing Epidemic history.com - David Montalvo Protesters feigned mass death to shock and shame government, industry and the media into finally addressing the lethal disease. As the AIDS crisis …
