Cette photo, datant de mars 1964, représente la seule rencontre entre Martin Luther King et Malcolm X, deux grands militants pour les droits des afro-américains. Toutefois, les deux hommes, bien que souriants et amicaux sur ce cliché, sont très souvent en désaccord. King perçoit Malcolm comme un radical qui incite à la violence sans suggérer de solutions. De son côté, Malcolm X s'opposait au pacifisme bourgeois de King et à ses idées sociales-démocrates qui visaient à réformer le capitalisme.
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29.
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Extraordinary Araminta Harriet (Ross) Tubman, born a slave in 1820 to slave parents, escaped North and carried out 19 dangerous missions to the south to save 300 slaves (including her parents) thru the Underground Railroad. She helped recruit men for the Harper's Ferry Raid, worked as a scout and armed spy for the Union, and founded a home for aged African Americans. After the Civil War was outspoken advocate for women's suffrage. Amazing…(km)
