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.
1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation
1st February 2021
Plessy v Ferguson effectively legalized racial segregation by permitting separate but supposedly equal facilities.
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.
A referendum in South Africa resulted in white South Africans voting to end apartheid.
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.
It was sent to the states for ratification the next day, a process that was concluded on 6 December after the necessary three-quarters of states approved it.
President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law on 2 November 1983.
On the 12th December 1935, the Lebensborn registered association was established in Nazi Germany by the SS.
The United States Supreme Court upheld the District Court’s ruling in Browder v. Gayle that segregation on public buses and transportation in Alabama was illegal.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019