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The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act established a framework for Aboriginal land ownership and claims based on traditional occupation. Land-rights organizing had made restitution a...

The Ōrākei Māori Action Committee began occupying Takaparawhau, also known as Bastion Point, to resist a proposed housing development on ancestral land. Led by Joe Hawke, the occupiers connected the...

Commonwealth leaders agreed to withhold support for sporting contacts with South Africa and to take practical steps to discourage them. The agreement strengthened the international campaign against...

Thousands of opponents mobilized against the National Front's march through southeast London. Local residents, Black communities and antifascist activists challenged the far right's attempt to claim...

Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko died in Pretoria after sustaining severe injuries in security-police custody. His death exposed the violence used to suppress a movement that rejected imposed...

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 418, requiring states to stop supplying arms and related military assistance to South Africa. International opposition to apartheid thus acquired...

Indigenous activists gathered on Alcatraz for the ceremony beginning the Longest Walk to Washington. The spiritual and political mobilization opposed proposed federal legislation threatening treaties,...

A large march through London culminated in a Rock Against Racism and Anti-Nazi League carnival in Victoria Park. Punk and reggae performers shared a platform opposing racist violence and the far...

Altab Ali, a young Bengali clothing worker, was murdered in Whitechapel in a racist attack. His killing occurred amid repeated intimidation of the area's Bengali population. It became a catalyst for...

Thousands of Bengalis and supporters marched from East London towards central London behind Altab Ali's coffin. The protest transformed collective grief into a public demand for protection against...