Taos Pueblo wins the return of Blue Lake lands

Residents and activists halted construction of a highway patrol facility on land promised for a community park in San Diego. They occupied and began transforming the site. Their campaign asserted...

Delano-area table-grape growers signed union contracts following years of strikes and consumer boycotts. Mexican and Filipino farmworkers and their supporters had challenged low pay and degrading...

Black activists and supporters marched against repeated police raids on the Mangrove restaurant, an important Caribbean community meeting place. The protest defended the right to gather and organize...

Thousands marched in East Los Angeles against the Vietnam War and its burden on Mexican American communities. Police intervention turned the gathering into a violent confrontation in which...

After organizers sought to restrict his account of colonial violence, Wampanoag speaker Wamsutta Frank James joined an alternative Thanksgiving gathering in Plymouth. The protest challenged...

Roma delegates gathered near London in a landmark international congress. Participants affirmed a shared flag and anthem and developed cooperation against discrimination. The event strengthened Roma...

The US Supreme Court upheld broad judicial powers, including busing, to dismantle legally segregated school systems. The case grew from Black families' efforts to make educational equality real in...

Young Pacific Islanders established the Polynesian Panther Party to confront racism and support their communities. Its work combined political education with practical assistance, including legal...

After a lengthy trial, all nine defendants were acquitted of the principal charge of incitement to riot. Four received suspended sentences for lesser offences. Their defence exposed weaknesses in...

Four Aboriginal activists set up an embassy opposite Parliament House to demand land rights. Calling their protest an embassy exposed the contradiction of being treated as outsiders on their own land....