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    Rosa Parks rides an integrated bus
    20th Century

    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)
    20th Century

    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

    First World War: beyond the western front

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    21st Century

    Olivette Otele: UK’s first female black history professor to research Bristol’s links to slave trade

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    General Modern

    The big question: should museums return their treasures?

    Harriet Tubman (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
    Victorian

    Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: how one woman saved hundreds from hell

    The Haiti slave revolt. (Image by Getty)
    Georgian

    Slave revolt

    An African samurai: the tall, strong African man who acquired the name Yasuke in Japan was at first an object of curiosity but soon became a prized samurai warrior serving a powerful warlord in the violent intrigues that wracked the country during that volatile era. ((Illustration by Lynn Hatzius for BBC World Histories)
    Tudor

    Yasuke: an African samurai in Japan

    The brutal murder of Emmett Till was just one of thousands of racially motivated lynchings in the American South, but it proved to be a pivotal moment in the civil rights revolution. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)
    20th Century

    Emmett Till: the murder that reshaped the American civil rights movement

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    Emma Dabiri. (Photo by Fran Monks)
    General Modern

    Why black hair matters

    National guardsmen confront confront citizens during Chicago's race riots
    20th Century

    Red summer of 1919: Chicago’s darkest days

    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)
    20th Century

    Mixed-race babies born after the Second World War

    Arthur Ashe in action at Wimbledon, where he won the men's singles title in 1975. (Photo by Ed Lacey / Popperfoto / Getty Images)
    20th Century

    My history hero | Tracy Austin chooses Arthur Ashe

    St Catharine's College, Cambridge has already removed a bell from view after concluding it came from a slave plantation. (Image by Alamy)
    Tudor

    Anna Whitelock | Confronting slavery’s legacy

    American civil rights leader Martin Luther King in Washington DC, where he delivered his famous 'I Have A Dream' speech to a quarter of a million civil rights supporters in Washington DC in August 1963. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
    20th Century

    Mourning Martin Luther King Jr: the life and legacy of the civil rights leader

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