The UN adopts a declaration against racial discrimination

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...

After months of boycott and public pressure, the Bristol Omnibus Company announced that racial discrimination in employing bus crews would end. The victory demonstrated the force of community...

A bomb at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church killed Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. The church had served as a gathering place for civil rights organizing....

Kenya achieved independence after a prolonged anticolonial struggle and negotiations. Jomo Kenyatta headed the new government. Sovereignty ended British colonial government, while the distribution...

Ratification prohibited poll taxes as a condition for voting in federal elections. Such payments had helped exclude Black citizens and poor voters from political participation. The amendment addressed...

Students and families withheld attendance in a citywide protest against school segregation and unequal educational conditions. Black and Puerto Rican organizing brought racial inequality in a northern...

Mandela addressed the court as the defence case opened in the Rivonia Trial. He explained the political struggle against apartheid and defended the ideal of a democratic society with equal...

Mandela and seven fellow defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment. The judgment removed prominent organizers from public political activity, while resistance continued through other networks and...