June 6, 1944 — Sgt. Salinger, with drafts of The Catcher in the Rye in his pack, lands at Normandy.

Fannie Lou Hamer was the soul of Mississippi’s civil rights movement. Soon all of America would hear her voice.

Single mother of seven, Dolores Huerta left her teaching job and went into the fields.  The United Farm Workers was born.

They were Dizzy, Daffy, and Ducky. They clowned, brawled, and romped through the Great Depression.