President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law on 2 November 1983.
29th July 1588: Decisive Battle of Gravelines during the Spanish Armada
29th July 2018
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.
Running against Caleb S. Hunt, Menard secured approximately 64 percent of the vote, and on 3 November 1868 became the first African-American person to be elected to the United States Congress.
In October 1921 Harding travelled to Alabama. Here he expressed his support for anti-lynching laws that would hold counties responsible for the illegal hangings, and lodge federal murder cases against the participants.
In the wake of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the killing of unarmed black teen Matthew Johnson by police the following year, the two men established the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologised to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he was refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
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.