A new phase of the Selma voting-rights campaign begins

Malawi gained independence from Britain, replacing colonial Nyasaland with a sovereign state. Hastings Kamuzu Banda headed the government. The change ended colonial political authority following...

Hamer told the Democratic convention’s credentials committee about retaliation and violence faced by Black people seeking the vote. The MFDP challenged the legitimacy of Mississippi’s exclusionary...

FRELIMO launched armed struggle against Portuguese colonial government. Under Eduardo Mondlane’s leadership, the movement sought national liberation from an order that denied equal political authority...

Zambia became independent, ending British rule over Northern Rhodesia, with Kenneth Kaunda as president. Nationalist organizing had challenged a colonial political and economic order. Independence...

Martin Luther King Jr. accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo and associated the recognition with the broader civil rights movement. His address stressed continuing racial injustice and the...

Students led by Charles Perkins began a bus tour of regional New South Wales to expose discrimination against Aboriginal people. Working with local communities, they challenged exclusion from public...

The Gambia became independent after nationalist campaigning and constitutional negotiations, with Dawda Jawara as prime minister. The transfer ended British colonial political authority....

Malcolm X was murdered while preparing to address a public meeting in Manhattan. His work linked Black self-determination, cultural dignity and international human rights. His death removed a...

John Lewis and Hosea Williams led marchers out of Selma toward Montgomery. State troopers and local law-enforcement officers attacked them near the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The violence exposed the...

King led demonstrators, including religious supporters who had come to Selma, to the site of the police attack. They prayed and returned rather than continuing to Montgomery amid legal restrictions....