On March 14, 1973, future U.S. senator and presidential candidate John McCain was released from North Vietnamese captivity after being held as a prisoner of war for over five years.
The Chicago-based lawyer led the charge in multiple high-profile cases, including defending Tennessee high school teacher Thomas Scopes for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in the classroom.
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 12, according to the Tribune’s archives.
On March 12, 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria, as German troops crossed the border into the country.
The legacy and impact of George Pullman and the Pullman Porters are featured in murals displayed along the Kennedy Expressway.
Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of the clash that became known as Bloody Sunday. The attack shocked the nation and galvanized support for the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 8, according to the Tribune’s archives.
On March 8, 1948, the Supreme Court, in McCollum v. Board of Education, struck down religious education classes during school hours in Champaign, Illinois, public schools, saying the program violated separation of church and state.
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 7, according to the Tribune’s archives.
On March 7, 1965, a march by over 500 civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama; state troopers and a sheriff’s posse fired tear gas and beat marchers with batons in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”