South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in Pretoria prison from injuries inflicted while in police custody.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
The Little Rock Crisis gained national attention, and was only resolved when President Eisenhower intervened.
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.
The final report of the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot, published in 2001, estimated that around 300 people may have died in the violence.
Plessy v Ferguson effectively legalized racial segregation by permitting separate but supposedly equal facilities.
The marchers arrived in Montgomery on 25 March, where King made his ‘How Long, Not Long’ speech to a crowd of more than 25,000 people.
After intense debate Senators voted 48 to 8 to seat Revels as the first African-American in the United States Senate.
It was sent to the states for ratification the next day, a process that was concluded on 6 December after the necessary three-quarters of states approved it.
President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law on 2 November 1983.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2022
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019