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 thank you so much for sharing! This was not a story that I knew, and this morning I learned that there was so much more:

https://hackaday.com/2020/09/03/the-astronomical-grit-of-ronald-mcnair/

The Astronomical Grit Of Ronald McNair

There is more than one way to lead a successful life. Some people have all the opportunity in the world laid out before them, and it never does them any good. Others have little more than the deter…

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