Story about astronaut Ronald McNair as a young black kid in the south:

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Cute animated story about this man, when he was a boy, going to the library to check out books in a southern town in 1959:
http://www.upworthy.com/a-librarian-tried-to-have-a-genius-little-boy-arrested-the-cops-reacted-the-same-way-you-would