| 26 May 1966 |
Guyana
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World War II
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Guyana becomes independent after labor and anticolonial organizing
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| 26 May 1966 |
Guyana
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History slavery Guyana
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Guyana becomes independent
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| 26 May 1966 |
Guyana
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Racism
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Guyana becomes independent from Britain
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| 21 August 1961 |
Guyana
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History slavery Guyana
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British Guiana votes under a new constitution
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| 12 August 1957 |
Guyana
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History slavery Guyana
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Elections restore a limited elected legislature
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| 9 October 1953 |
Guyana
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History slavery Guyana
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Britain suspends British Guiana’s constitution
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| 27 April 1953 |
Guyana
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History slavery Guyana
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Adult-suffrage election brings the People’s Progressive Party to office
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| 17 June 1948 |
Guyana
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History slavery Guyana
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Sugar workers march to bury the Enmore dead
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| 16 June 1948 |
Guyana
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History slavery Guyana
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Colonial police kill five striking sugar workers at Enmore
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| 15 June 1948 |
Guyana
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History slavery Guyana
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Talks at Non Pareil fail to settle the sugar strike
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| 5 June 1948 |
Guyana
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History slavery Guyana
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Striking sugar workers take their demands to Georgetown
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| 22 April 1948 |
Guyana
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History slavery Guyana
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Sugar workers begin a colony-wide strike against the cut-and-load system
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| 16 February 1939 |
Guyana
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History slavery Guyana
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Police kill four striking workers at Plantation Leonora
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| 3 April 1924 |
Guyana
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History slavery Guyana
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Police shoot sugar workers marching in solidarity at Ruimveldt
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| 1 January 1920 |
Guyana
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History slavery Guyana
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British Guiana formally ends outstanding indenture contracts
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