TIL In 1959, police came to a segregated library when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.

Ronald Erwin McNair (October 21, 1950 – January 28, 1986) was an American NASA astronaut and physicist. He died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, in which he was serving as one of three mission specialists in a crew of seven. Prior to the Challenger disaster, McNair flew as a mission...