InBuzzFeed CollectionsbyJohn Stanton·Jul 1, 2016The Fight to Resurrect America’s Most Important Black BeachGulfside Assembly — the only place where black Americans could visit a coastal beach during Jim Crow — was once known as a civil rights…
InBuzzFeed CollectionsbyBrian Castner·Jul 1, 2016Meet Linda Cox, The First Woman To Disarm Bombs For The U.S. MilitaryLinda Cox overcame discrimination, ridicule, and explosives to become the military’s first female bomb technician over 40 years ago. Just…A response icon3
InBuzzFeed CollectionsbyMichelle Nijhuis·Jul 1, 2016The Abandoned Plan That Could Have Saved America From DroughtThe North American Water and Power Alliance was an audacious proposal to divert water to parched western states that would have cost…
InBuzzFeed CollectionsbyThomas Gounley·Jul 1, 201625 Years After The Great Missouri Earthquake That Never HappenedOn Dec. 3, 1990, an earthquake was supposed to level the small town of New Madrid, Missouri and become one of the biggest natural disasters…
InBuzzFeed CollectionsbySteve Knopper·Jul 1, 2016Joe Dorsey’s Big Fight: How An Unknown Boxer Knocked Out Segregation In LouisianaIn 1955, an African-American boxer in New Orleans named Joe Dorsey sued the state of Louisiana for the right to fight against white…
