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In August 1969, the first classical ballet company to focus on black dancers was formed
The revolutionary Black Panther Party provided free breakfasts for local schoolchildren.
Yvonne Conolly was appointed head of Ringcross Primary school in North London in 1969
Norwell Roberts endured years of racist abuse within the Metropolitan police
How an all-black college team overturned racist assumptions about basketball in the USA
The African-American winter holiday was invented in Los Angeles in 1966.
On 21 April 1966 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia arrived in Jamaica
Moneta Sleet, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
Held 24 hours after the death of Martin Luther King, the gig went ahead peacefully
How British black activists fought for employment rights in the 1960s
How the boxing champion's refusal to go to Vietnam made him a hero to 1960s radicals
Martin Luther King made his historic plea for racial equality at the March on Washington
The story of an extraordinary act of courage by the civil rights leader Martin Luther King
Four young black girls were killed in a racist attack on a church in Alabama in 1963
Three civil rights workers are killed in Mississippi while taking part in Freedom Summer
Thousands of black American children protest against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama
A simple non-violent action to protest against racial segregation in restaurants and shops
Inter-racial violence broke out in west London in the summer of 1958
A landmark case about racial segregation in the USA.
Over 50 years ago a white journalist tried living as a black man in America's Deep South.
How Mildred and Richard Loving fought to get mixed-race marriages legalised across the US
Ann Lowe designed Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress but for years few people knew her name
The African-American lab technician whose surgery helped save millions of babies..
How an African American soldier captured in the Korean war, decided to settle in China
