On the 1st August 1834, the Slavery Abolition Act came into force in the United Kingdom, although it had received royal assent a year earlier.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
On the 15th June 1215, Magna Carta – one of the most famous documents in the world – was approved by King John when he added his seal to it in a field at Runnymede near Windsor in England.
The final report of the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot, published in 2001, estimated that around 300 people may have died in the violence.
Plessy v Ferguson effectively legalized racial segregation by permitting separate but supposedly equal facilities.
The Act made it illegal to discriminate regarding the sale, rental, or financing of housing based on race, religion, or national origin.
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.
When the two-day sale ended on 3 March, 429 slaves had been sold.
After intense debate Senators voted 48 to 8 to seat Revels as the first African-American in the United States Senate.
The Greensboro sit-ins began when four black students sat at the ‘whites only’ lunch counter in the Woolworth department store.
President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law on 2 November 1983.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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