Nina Renata Aron in Timeline

Jun 22, 2018

---

This was the only refugee camp in America for Jews fleeing the Nazis

Roosevelt’s effort to help came…

Read more…

2.3K

12 responses

Brendan Seibel in Timeline

Jun 20, 2018

---

How NYC tenements once hid secret sweatshops

Immigrant families worked punishing hours in dilapidated apartments just to survive

Read more…

1.4K

5 responses

Timeline

Jun 5, 2018

---

The Panama Canal’s Forgotten Casualties

The U.S. used triumphant rhetoric and philanthropy to mask horrifying conditions

Read more…

1.6K

10 responses

Shoshi Parks in Timeline

Jun 11, 2018

---

These women were the toughest performers in the Wild West

Don’t try horse diving at home

Read more…

1K

3 responses

Ashawnta Jackson in Timeline

Jun 19, 2018

---

She was one of the first black women to host a television show

Then the House Un-American Activities Committee came for her

Read more…

2.5K

13 responses

Shoshi Parks in Timeline

Jun 14, 2018

---

This woman realized the sun’s potential long before the rest of the country

Mária Telkes lead the way in solar power development

Read more…

2.9K

4 responses

Meagan Day in Timeline

Jun 18, 2018

---

The First Black-Led Union Wouldn’t Have Existed Without This Woman

Behind the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was a sisterhood

Read more…

1.2K

3 responses

Meagan Day in Timeline

Jun 1, 2018

---

The extraordinary courage of an ordinary woman: Lorena Weeks broke barriers for working women

She’d been told that men are the breadwinners, so “women just don’t need this type of job”

Read more…

2.1K

6 responses

Ashawnta Jackson in Timeline

Jun 7, 2018

---

This woman shattered the gender barrier in pro baseball

When Toni Stone joined the Negro League, she became the first woman regular on a big-league team

Read more…

775

2 responses

Brendan Seibel in Timeline

Jun 12, 2018

---

These photos show how the American Civil Rights Movement influenced Aboriginal rights activists

Students traveled Australia by bus, just like the Freedom Riders

Read more…

615

These were the top 10 stories published by Timeline in June of 2018. You can also dive into daily archives for June of 2018 by using the calendar at the top of this page.