The Negro Convention Movement, sometimes referred to as the Colored Conventions Movement, developed during the antebellum period in the north American states.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Black teenager Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly flirting with and offending a white woman in Mississippi.
The Act outlawed discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, or national origin and is consequently viewed as a landmark piece of civil rights legislation.
A boycott against the Bristol Omnibus Company in England was launched due to their racist employment policy.
King was standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorrain Motel in Memphis when he was hit by a single bullet that shattered his jaw and several vertebrae.
The Greensboro sit-ins began when four black students sat at the ‘whites only’ lunch counter in the Woolworth department store.
The ship’s insurers refused to pay out for the deaths of the slaves and the ensuing court cases found that the killing of slaves was legal in some situations.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologised to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he was refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
Taking place on the centenary of President Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which he declared the freedom of slaves, ‘I Have a Dream’ was the sixteenth of eighteen speeches given by different orators that day and is regularly described as one of the best speeches of the 20th Century.
On the 2nd July 1964, American President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law at the White House.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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