Coretta Scott King joins the Memphis solidarity march

An FBI directive launched a counterintelligence programme against organizations it labelled Black nationalist hate groups. Its purpose included disrupting and discrediting groups and leaders, not...

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...

Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibited specified discrimination in housing sales, rentals and financing. The law addressed institutions that restricted residential access by race and...

The sanitation strike ended with an agreement providing union recognition and wage improvements. Workers’ sustained action and community solidarity had challenged the city’s treatment of Black...

Coretta Scott King led women in a Washington march that opened the campaign’s major public demonstrations. The coalition brought people from different racial and regional backgrounds together around...

Equatorial Guinea gained independence, ending Spanish colonial sovereignty. The transfer removed foreign colonial administration and established a new national state. Formal independence changed the...

Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised gloved fists during the Olympic medal ceremony in Mexico City. Australian silver medallist Peter Norman wore an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge in...