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

James Lawson hosting a press conference in Alabama

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US civil rights movement5 landmark events. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Episode 1The lynching of Emmett Till. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A boy signs a petition against slavery (bottom left) in an 1826 satirical cartoon originally titled 'John Bull Taking a Clear View on the Negro Slavery Question', by R Cruikshank (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

The children who fought for the abolition of slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Windrush at 75Why is arrival of Windrush such a key milestone?

A group of men reading the news aboard the HMT Empire Windrush on arrival at Tilbury in Essex, 22nd June 1948.

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

Before Windrush: Britain’s long relationship with the Caribbean. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Juneteenth celebrations, also known as Emancipation Day, in Texas, 1900

JuneteenthWhat is it, historians on its relevance, and 9 articles you should read

American aviator Bessie Coleman pictured in c1922, around the time she made her debut flight. Her astonishing aerial stunts would earn her the monikers ‘Queen Bess’ and ‘Brave Bessie’ (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Bessie Coleman: a boundary-breaking pilot who fought for her dream

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William Douglas: infamous bushranger, prize-fighter and reader of skulls. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How the Bristol bus boycott changed Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1780 portrait of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and talented composer, violinist and swordsman (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: how the mixed-race musical maestro Joseph Bologne became a star in 18th-century France

‘Black Douglas’: a not so dastardly bushranger?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history heroMichelle Gayle chooses James Baldwin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photograph of Pauli Murray

Pauli MurrayThe Civil Rights and LGBTQ+ icon who fought Jim and Jane Crow

Edward Tull-Warnock, who qualified as one of the first black dentists in Britain

The forgotten contributions of black Edwardians in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enoch Powell against a union jack flag

Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech: Britain and race in the mid 20th-century

Emmett TillThe murder that reshaped the American civil rights movement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black Victorians: radicals, muses, inmates & aristocrats. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Civil rights campaigner Ida B Wells, acclaimed composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; and footballer Walter Tull.

Black Victorians: the hidden Britons who helped shape the 19th century

Enslavement, separation & survival: the story of "Ashley's sack". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Captives being brought on board a slave ship on the West Coast of Africa (Slave Coast), c1880. Although Britain outlawed slavery in 1833 and it was abolished in the USA after the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War in 1865, the transatlantic trade in African slaves continued. The main market for the slaves was Brazil, where slavery was not abolished until 1888. (Colorised black and white print). Artist Unknown.. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Black British historySlavery's painful legacy

Black History MonthThe slave who stole a ship and sailed to freedom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Unesco world heritage site of Hadrian's Wall. (Photo by Getty Images)

Black British historyBlack Britannia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Congo-Océan railroad’s deadly history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black British history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paterson Joseph and Ignatius Sancho

My history heroPaterson Joseph chooses Ignatius Sancho. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Black British historyA timeline of key moments

Sara Forbes Bonetta (seated besides her husband James Davies was brought to England in the late 1840s by a Navy captain. Presented to Queen Victoria, she impressed the monarch so much that Victoria became her godmother

Black History MonthWhat is it, historians on its relevance, plus 7 articles you should read