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Ronald McNair's library
1959
Lake City, South Carolina
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
In 1959 a nine-year-old Ronald McNair refused to leave the whites-only Lake City library without the science books he had picked out. The police were called on a child holding books, and his mother was sent for. He became an MIT physicist and the second Black American in space, and died aboard Challenger in 1986. The library that turned him away is now the Ronald E. McNair Life History Center, which is as complete a sentence as history writes.
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