The Negro Convention Movement, sometimes referred to as the Colored Conventions Movement, developed during the antebellum period in the north American states.
Tens of thousands of Ku Klux Klan members took part in an organised march through Washington D.C.
President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 that abolished racial segregation in the U.S. military.
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.
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.
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.
A referendum in South Africa resulted in white South Africans voting to end apartheid.
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