Selma demonstrators hold the Turnaround Tuesday march

SCLC joined the Dallas County Voters League, SNCC and local residents in an intensified voting-rights campaign. Black residents had long confronted obstruction when attempting to register. The new...

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...

Demonstrators departed Selma under federal protection after earlier attempts had faced repression. Local residents and national supporters sustained a five-day march demanding voting rights. Federal...

The Selma march culminated at Alabama’s capital with a mass rally. Organizers demanded effective political participation for Black citizens rather than acceptance of constitutional promises without...

President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act after sustained organizing against racial disenfranchisement. It supplied federal tools to address discriminatory registration and election...

An arrest in Los Angeles sparked an uprising that continued for several days. The unrest occurred amid grievances over policing, employment and housing. Its varied participants did not form a single...

Filipino farmworkers organized through AWOC walked out against grape growers near Delano, California, demanding better pay and conditions. Their initiative challenged an agricultural labour system...