The All-African Peoples’ Conference links liberation movements

Delegates opened the Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Conference in Cairo, continuing until 1 January 1958. The meeting built a network supporting national liberation and opposition to colonialism. It...

Lumbee people confronted a Klan rally at Hayes Pond near Maxton, North Carolina, and drove its participants away. Their organized response resisted threats intended to enforce white supremacy. The...

A conference held on 14–16 February formed a national council to coordinate campaigns for Aboriginal rights. Delegates sought constitutional reform and equal citizenship. Indigenous participants...

The Supreme Court affirmed that Arkansas officials were bound by constitutional requirements and federal desegregation rulings. Black families’ pursuit of educational rights confronted authorities...

Guinea became independent after rejecting the proposed French Community in a referendum. Choosing sovereignty challenged France’s continued political authority over an African population. In an...

Claudia Jones and the West Indian Gazette organized an indoor carnival at St Pancras Town Hall following racist violence in 1958. Music and performance asserted community dignity and cultural...

Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King and Lawrence Reddick departed on a journey that included a five-week visit to India. They explored Gandhian nonviolence and exchanged experiences with Indian...

The governor declared a state of emergency in Nyasaland and authorities detained nationalist leaders and banned Congress organizations, including their youth and women’s leagues. Repression confronted...

The founding conference of 4–6 April culminated in the launch of the Pan Africanist Congress and the election of Robert Sobukwe as president. Africanists who had separated from the ANC established...

The ANC called for a potato boycott to protest the treatment of African farmworkers. Organizing and public boycott activity developed over the following weeks. The campaign connected consumer pressure...