to never give up

John Hope Franklin lived through America’s most defining twentieth-century transformation

threatened—once with lynching—and consistently subjected to racism’s denigration of his humanity

On April 19

Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher became the plaintiff in a landmark U

On God's Polishing Wheel kids to never give upBy Kurt Leichter with Cathy Leichter At the age of 14 Kurt Leichter, alone, boarded the USS Westernland in Antwerp, Belgium bound for American with a small suitcase and a straw hat. The straw hat bore a cardboard nametag that simply read KURT. The nametag was the only identification those waiting for him in New York Harbor were looking for. An only child, Leichter was born in Vienna, Austria, to Claire and Bela Leichter, an opera singer and a