Black history

In 1965, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was brought in to end racial discrimination

South Africa’s first musical with an all-black cast opened to critical acclaim in 1959

Polly Sheppard, a survivor of the 2015 Charleston shooting, describes how it unfolded

In 1964, a civil rights swimming protest ended when acid was poured into the pool

In 1936, the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie was exiled in Bath in the UK

In 1987, Waris Dirie had her first photo-shoot and became a supermodel sensation

The campaign to return Sarah Baartman to South Africa nearly 200 years after her death

The first African-American woman to lead a World War Two battalion

She overcame poverty, health problems and racism to become one of Peru’s greatest singers

In 1973 a fashion show was held in France which the media dubbed the Battle of Versailles

In 1986, Charlotte Mensah went to work in the UK's first luxury Afro-Caribbean hair salon

Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat helped end segregation in the United States

In 2013, South Africa's first black president was buried in his ancestral village

How a protest by black activists in 1963 led to the UK's first anti-racism laws

MoMA bought photos from an African-American woman for the first time in 1979.

In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was brutally murdered in Mississippi

In 1968, when Petula Clark touched Harry Belafonte's arm, it made US TV history

She received numerous Hugos and Nebulas - top writing prizes for sci-fi writing

Jimmy Cliff spoke about the film that brought reggae music to the world in 1972

In 1959, Claudia Jones held a Caribbean party, planting the seeds for the famous carnival

The BBC's first black producer, Una Marson, and the beginnings of the Caribbean Service

In 1985, a guide was written for young black men in the US who were stopped by the police

Manchester’s first racially inclusive nightclub

On 22 June 1948, the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in England