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 4th April 1968, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 39.
The long case eventually went before the Supreme Court who ruled that they had been unlawfully held and thus rebelled in a natural right to self-defense. The court set them free.
Bridges was born in 1954, the same year that the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that racially segregated schools were unconstitutional.
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in Pretoria prison from injuries inflicted while in police custody.
The Little Rock Crisis gained national attention, and was only resolved when President Eisenhower intervened.
Black teenager Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly flirting with and offending a white woman in Mississippi.
American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.
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.
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