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(Original Caption) Chicago: Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of Emmett Till, 14, who was found slain in Mississippi where he was on vacation, is near hysteria as she attends funeral services here. Till was found with bullet through head after two white men had kidnapped him.

American spotlight: how today’s protests echo historical outrage . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A slave in chains expressing the inhumanity of slavery with the words 'Am I not a man and a brother?', 1774. (Photo by Getty Images)

Britain and the slave trade . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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American civil rights leader Martin Luther King

The civil rights movement: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Podcast Website large Afua Hirsch

From Nelson to Churchill: challenging British heroes with Afua Hirsch . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men operate a cotton gin in Dahomey, Mississippi, in 1898

7 key questions about the transatlantic slave trade – answered

An African man after being liberated from a slave ship by the Royal Navy, 1871. In all, more than 12 million captives were loaded onto Atlantic slavers’ vessels. (Pictures from History/Bridgeman Images)

A brief guide to the transatlantic slave trade

1774: A slave in chains expressing the inhumanity of slavery with the words 'Am I not a man and a brother?'. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

Abolition in Britain: the link between slavery and the British national identity

Woodcut illustration of slave labour on a sugar plantation

Success, sugar and slaves: the uncomfortable story of slaveholder Simon Taylor

Olaudah Equiano (Photo by Getty)

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Who was Olaudah Equiano – and why was his story of slavery so important?

An 1826 illustration from 'The Black Man's Lament

David Olusoga "Thousands of Britons opposed abolition – because they owned slaves"

Wrecked buildings in Los Angeles' South Central district following 1992 riots

The 1992 LA riots

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Traditional Kente cloth from Ghana (Photo by Dreamstime)

A new view of Africa’s past . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944

Editor’s pick 9 top articles from the BBC World Histories archive to read right now

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Emma Dabiri in conversation about her book 'Don't Touch My Hair'

“Afro-textured hair had no stigma before the dehumanisation of black people that emerged from slavery”: Emma Dabiri discusses the changing perceptions of Afro-textured hair . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

James Shapiro discusses Shakespeare and America. (Images by Dreamstime)

How William Shakespeare shaped America