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1st December 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the white section of the bus became full

1st December 2021
Tagged as: Alabama, America, Civil Rights, Rosa Parks, United States, USA

This simple act of defiance led to her quickly becoming a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement, and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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25th March 1965: The Selma to Montgomery March ends at the Alabama State Capitol

25th March 2021
Tagged as: Alabama, Civil Rights, Johnson, March, Martin Luther King, Montgomery, Protest, Racism, Selma

The marchers arrived in Montgomery on 25 March, where King made his ‘How Long, Not Long’ speech to a crowd of more than 25,000 people.

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21st October 1921: U.S. President Warren G. Harding publicly condemns lynching in a speech in Alabama

21st October 2020
Tagged as: Alabama, America, Civil Rights, Harding, Lynching, Murder, Racism, United States, USA

In October 1921 Harding travelled to Alabama. Here he expressed his support for anti-lynching laws that would hold counties responsible for the illegal hangings, and lodge federal murder cases against the participants.

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1st December 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the white section of the bus became full

25th March 1965: The Selma to Montgomery March ends at the Alabama State Capitol

21st October 1921: U.S. President Warren G. Harding publicly condemns lynching in a speech in Alabama

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

23rd September 1949: President Truman announces the USSR’s first nuclear test

22nd September 1776: Nathan Hale hanged by the British for spying for the Continental Army during the American Revolution

21st September 1931: Britain abandons the gold standard after Parliament passes the Gold Standard (Amendment) Act

20th September 1973: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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