“We were way up. All we had to worry about were the shells coming. They couldn’t come over the mountains, so when they hit one side, the rocks would come flying onto our side. That’s the only thing we had to worry about... Staying up in the mountains…

“Well then after I got out of the service I was discharged from the WAC in Manilla, and I took a War Department Job in Tokyo. That’s when the occupation had just started there. As a matter of fact, I was in the first plane of women going into…

"The American GI Forum started with the Felix Longoria case, we had gone into police brutality, lack of representation in juries, lack of representation in draft boards. I knew civil rights [as a Mexican-American]. I knew the problems, I knew where…

"Escogiste servir a tu pueblo de un modo nada aceptable en tu tiempo,Eres vista como algo fuera de lo comun, pero aun necesaria,Porque pedras ser lo que fueiste hasta ese entonces para la sociedad;"(You choose to serve your people in a way not…

“It was my moral obligation [document my experiences]. God gave me that ink to last." ~Anthony Acavedo, Oral History Interview with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, October 13, 2010 Born in San Bernardino, California in 1924, Anthony…

"You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea." ~Medgar Evers or Myrlie Evers, widow of Medgar Evers, 1963 Born into a working-class Black family in Decatur, Mississippi, Medgar Evers attended segregated schools and witnessed a…