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Following the Reconstruction Era, the South was a region embittered and falsely attributed their self-induced economic malaise to the black man. As such, the Tuskegee Institute estimates that from 1882 to 1968 (yes, that recently), a staggering 3,446 blacks were unjustly killed by the noose.
While Rosa Parks wasn’t the first woman to refuse to move while on a Montgomery bus, she was certainly the most iconic. With segregationist seating policies in place in Alabama’s bus system since 1900, by 1955 Rosa Parks–like most of her black counterparts–was fed up with being treated as second-class when her money played an equal role in keeping the bus system solvent and acted accordingly. While her stern resolve against the bus driver resulted in a brief stint in jail, it also aided in catapulting the cause for civil rights to a much broader scale. Rosa Parks mug shot became one of the most famous photographs of the civil rights movement.
On August 29th 1911, Ishi, the last of the Yahi, walked out of the Sierra wilderness and into American culture. Estimated to have been born around 1860-1862, Ishi’s life was marred by fighting and massacre. As the last of his people, a tribe thought to be extinct, Ishi provided a vital link to cultural information about North America’s Native American history.
Born at the decline of the Yahi population, at a time when gold mining had damaged water supplies, decimated fishing and scared away deer, Ishi survived the Three Knolls Massacre, an attack that reduced the Yahi people to approximately sixty. To avoid further clashes, Ishi and his family went into hiding for the next forty years, avoiding the world being built by the new settlers of the California Gold Rush.
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