Young people join Birmingham’s Children’s Crusade

The General Assembly adopted Resolution 1803 on permanent sovereignty over natural resources. It linked control of resources to national development and peoples’ well-being. For movements...

Local activists and SCLC began coordinated protests against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. Sit-ins and economic pressure built on years of organizing by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human...

Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested while participating in Birmingham demonstrations despite a court injunction. The arrest placed the conflict between court-enforced restrictions and nonviolent...

Writing from jail, King defended nonviolent direct action against criticism by white clergy. He explained why people suffering segregation could not indefinitely postpone their claims to justice....

Campaigners launched a boycott against the Bristol Omnibus Company’s refusal to employ Black and Asian bus crews. Caribbean community organizing and wider support challenged discrimination in...

Independent African states established the OAU in Addis Ababa. Its charter promoted solidarity, sovereignty and the eradication of colonialism in Africa. The organization created a continental...

Malone and Hood registered after Governor George Wallace’s attempt to block their entry. Their determination, litigation and federal intervention challenged state enforcement of university...

NAACP organizer Medgar Evers was murdered outside his home in Jackson after returning from movement work. He had campaigned against segregation and barriers to Black political participation. His...

Yolngu petitioners challenged decisions allowing bauxite mining on their land without adequate consultation. The first bark petition was tabled in the House of Representatives, with another...

A mass demonstration in Washington demanded civil rights protections, employment and economic justice. Movement and labour organizations brought their constituencies together for the March on...