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Rosa Parks (right) riding on a bus following the Supremacial segregation on Montgomery's public transit system. (Photo by Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images)

History hero Gabby Logan chooses Rosa Parks (1913–2005) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Madam CJ Walker, America's first female millionaire. (Photo courtesy of Madam Walker Family Archives/A'Lelia Bundles)

Self Made: the real story of Madam CJ Walker, America’s first black female millionaire

The story of Martin Luther King’s struggle for civil rights in America

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Hidden Figures: the incredible real history behind the film

Black rights activist Malcolm X

Malcolm X: Activism, assassination and how he predicted his own death

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Confronting evils.

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The Windrush generation . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Uncertain futures: Children of black American servicemen and white British women often spent time in case, such as this group photographed at Holnicote House in Somerset. (Photo by Lesley York – Author provided)

Mixed-race babies born after the Second World War

Rosa Parks rides an integrated bus

From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King: the boycott that inspired the dream

Members of the Ku Klux Klan march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in 1925. The Klan of this era was a terrorist group in the precise meaning of that term, says Linda Gordon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

When the Ku Klux Klan was a mass movement

A British officer stands alongside two of his Japanese counterparts in 1914 in Tsingtao (now Qingdao). Japanese troops played a key role in the capture of that strategic German concession in north-east China. (Photo by Getty Images)

First World War: beyond the western front

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

The big question Should museums return their treasures?

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The Haiti slave revolt. (Image by Getty)

Slave revolt . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Emma Dabiri. (Photo by Fran Monks)

Why black hair matters . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Arthur Ashe in action at Wimbledon, where he won the men's singles title in 1975. (Photo by Ed Lacey / Popperfoto / Getty Images)

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