The Fair Housing Act becomes law

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...

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...

The 1968 Act received Royal Assent, expanding Britain’s legal response to racial discrimination beyond the limited 1965 legislation. It addressed employment, housing and services, among other areas....