A letter bomb kills anti-apartheid scholar Ruth First

The final test of the Springbok tour at Eden Park took place amid major anti-apartheid protests and clashes with police. An aircraft dropped flour bombs over the ground, but the match continued. The...

The Constitution Act, 1982 came into force with section 35 recognizing and affirming existing Aboriginal and treaty rights. It identified First Nations, Inuit and Métis within the constitutional...

Eddie Koiki Mabo and fellow Meriam claimants began High Court proceedings asserting traditional ownership of their island lands. Their action challenged the colonial legal foundations used to deny...

The Bradford Twelve were acquitted after a trial arising from preparations to defend their community against an anticipated racist attack. Their defence campaign argued that the unused petrol bombs...

Chinese American Vincent Chin died four days after being beaten in the Detroit area. His attackers connected him with resentment over Japanese competition in the automobile industry. The killing and...

Around two thousand people marched in Brisbane for Aboriginal land rights ahead of the Commonwealth Games. Activists used international attention on the sporting event to expose dispossession and...

At a Transvaal Anti-South African Indian Council conference in Johannesburg, Allan Boesak called for a united front against government constitutional proposals. The initiative opposed reforms that...

Asian Americans in Detroit founded American Citizens for Justice after the killers of Vincent Chin received probation and fines. Lily Chin, Helen Zia and other organizers sought federal civil-rights...

The United Democratic Front was launched at Rocklands in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town. It brought together organizations opposing apartheid's constitutional reforms and racial divisions. Community...

A twentieth-anniversary mobilization returned to Washington under demands for jobs, peace and freedom. Civil-rights and labour participants carried banners linking the unfinished promises of the...