Malagasy insurgents rise against French colonial rule

India requested that South Africa’s treatment of people of Indian origin be placed on the United Nations General Assembly agenda. Domestic resistance gained an international diplomatic channel. This...

African mineworkers on the Witwatersrand struck for a minimum wage of ten shillings a day and better working conditions. Police repression helped break the strike. Their collective withdrawal of...

Viola Desmond refused to leave the main-floor seating reserved for white patrons at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow. Police removed and arrested her, and a tax charge was used against her. Her...

General Assembly resolution 44(I) called for the treatment of Indians in South Africa to conform to international obligations and the UN Charter. Indian diplomacy and South African campaigners...

Alfred Xuma, Monty Naicker and Yusuf Dadoo signed a joint declaration of cooperation between the ANC and the Natal and Transvaal Indian Congresses. The pact sought coordinated struggle against...

An interracial group began the Journey of Reconciliation through the Upper South to test compliance with the Morgan decision. Riders challenged segregated seating and faced arrests and hostility....

Jackie Robinson made his Brooklyn Dodgers debut, breaking the colour barrier in modern Major League Baseball. His entry challenged institutional exclusion from a prominent cultural and economic arena....

India became independent following decades of organizing against British rule. Ending imperial political authority repudiated the assumption that colonized people should be governed by a foreign...

Burma achieved independence after nationalist organizing and negotiations over British withdrawal. The creation of a sovereign state ended formal imperial control over its government. In an...

African veterans marched toward Christiansborg Castle to present demands over promised benefits and pay. Police killed three veterans, and wider unrest followed. The protest confronted unequal...