A referendum in South Africa resulted in white South Africans voting to end apartheid.
17th May 1943: Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron carries out the ‘Dambusters’ raids
17th May 2019
The Greensboro sit-ins began when four black students sat at the ‘whites only’ lunch counter in the Woolworth department store.
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.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologised to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he was refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
On the 15th September 1935, the German Reichstag passed the Nuremberg Laws that legally discriminated against Jews.
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in Pretoria prison from injuries inflicted while in police custody.
A boycott against the Bristol Omnibus Company in England was launched due to their racist employment policy.
On the 1st December 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama after the white section of the bus became full.
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.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017