The Race Relations Act extends protections into housing and employment

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...

The Black Student Union and Third World Liberation Front began a strike over admissions, staffing and a curriculum that marginalized their communities. Students demanded authority over how their...

Forty-four people, including women and children, were killed when a hut was burned in Kilvenmani, Tamil Nadu, during a conflict over agricultural wages. Dalit workers had organized against...

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination became legally binding for its initial states parties. It required action against racial discrimination and...

Black, Asian American, Mexican American and Native American student organizations began a strike demanding a Third World College. Their proposal linked access to education with community control...

Students began occupying university facilities in Montreal after complaints by Black Caribbean students about discriminatory treatment were mishandled. Their action challenged both classroom practices...