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US civil rights movement 5 landmark events . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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

Juneteenth What 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.

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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

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

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

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

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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.