Velocity22 🏴‍☠️Nov 24, 2022

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people.

The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him

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@Velocity2222 @indubitablyodin McNair, who died in the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, was also the first #Bahai in space (I believe still the only one), one of the first non-Christians overall & only the second African American in space!
Nov 24, 2022 at 5:29amWeb