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.
20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France
20th July 2019
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.
On the 4th September 1957 a group of nine black schoolchildren were prevented from entering the previously segregated Little Rock Central High School by the Arkansas National Guard acting on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus.
A referendum in South Africa resulted in white South Africans voting to end apartheid.
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.
24th January 41 CE: Emperor Caligula killed by the Praetorian Guard
24th January 2020
22nd January 1905: Bloody Sunday massacre in Saint Petersburg
22nd January 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018