Nine months before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama bus, a high school student named Claudette Colvin made a similarly pivotal decision in the fight for civil rights.
Gustavo "Gus" Garcia was a trailblazing attorney — but a decade after arguing the landmark case Hernandez v. Texas before the Supreme Court in 1954, the 48-year-old was dead.
This year marks the 86 anniversary of the conviction of Charles "Lucky" Luciano. Eunice Hunton Carter is the Black woman who found a way to take him down.