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

@Velocity2222 There is a wonderful StoryCorp animated video about this. https://storycorps.org/animation/eyes-on-the-stars/
Eyes on the Stars - StoryCorps

On January 28, 1986, NASA Challenger mission STS-51-L ended in tragedy when the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff. On board was physicist Ronald E. McNair, who was the second African American person to enter space. But first, he was a kid with big dreams in Lake City, South Carolina. Para subtítulos en español, haga […]

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