A boycott against the Bristol Omnibus Company in England was launched due to their racist employment policy.
11th March 1702: First edition of the Daily Courant, the first daily English-language newspaper
11th March 2019
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.
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.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018