The FBI initiates a COINTELPRO programme targeting Black organizations

At Riverside Church in New York, King publicly challenged the Vietnam War and connected militarism with racial and economic injustice. He argued that struggles for justice at home could not be...

Ali refused induction into the United States armed forces during the Vietnam War, invoking religious conviction and opposition to the war. Boxing authorities stripped him of his title and suspended...

Following sustained campaigning, voters approved removing the exclusion of Aboriginal people from constitutional population reckoning and enabling the Commonwealth to legislate for them. The result...

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously for Mildred and Richard Loving, invalidating state laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Their challenge confronted the state’s authority to police intimate life...

A police raid on an unlicensed club sparked confrontations that developed into a major uprising. The crisis unfolded amid longstanding grievances over policing and racial inequality. It was not a...

Black sanitation workers stopped work after years of unsafe conditions, low pay and unequal treatment. The deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker earlier that month intensified their grievances....

Students at several East Los Angeles high schools joined walkouts demanding better education and respect for Mexican American students. Earlier action at Wilson High School had begun on 1 March. The...

Mauritius became an independent state, ending British colonial sovereignty. The transfer established national governing authority after campaigns for self-government. In a decolonial analysis, it...

Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where he had come to support striking sanitation workers. His final campaigns connected racial equality with economic justice. His...

Coretta Scott King and other family members marched with thousands in Memphis, honouring King and supporting sanitation workers. The demonstration sustained the workers’ demands after his...