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- Jan. 28: Challenging Segregation
- En español | Harvey Gantt, the first African American student admitted to South Carolina’s Clemson University, begins classes. Gantt went on to graduate with honors and later earned a master’s degree in city planning from MIT. In 1983 he was elected to his first of two terms as mayor of Charlotte, N.C.
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- Feb. 19: Women’s Rights
- The Feminine Mystique, a book examining women’s lives in the decades after World War II, is published — and widely credited with igniting the women’s…