Witness History: Black history

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On 18 June 1964, black and white protesters jumped into a ‘whites only’ swimming pool at a motel in St Augustine, in Florida. Photos of the Monson Motor Lodge manager, James Brock, pouring cleaning acid into the pool to get them out, made global headlines. The following day, the Civil Rights Act - a landmark bill to end discrimination which had been stalling in … Play episode

Charleston church shooting
King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical
How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965
Emperor Haile Selassie in Bath
Waris Dirie
Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home
Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight
The Battle of Versailles: Catwalk clash of American and French fashion
How Rosa Parks took a stand against racism
Lucha Reyes: Peruvian music star
Queen of the 'fro
The funeral of Nelson Mandela
The Bristol bus boycott
The Empire Windrush arrives
Ming Smith makes history at MoMA
Octavia E. Butler: Visionary black sci-fi writer
Una Marson and the BBC Caribbean Service
The Little Black Book survival guide
The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival
The Harder They Come
The funk and soul club that changed Manchester
Civil Rights activist Ida B Wells
The death of Trayvon Martin
Black Jesus
'I just wanted to be white'
Nasa's pioneering black women
Viv Anderson - first black England footballer
The Battle of Lewisham
When Nelson Mandela went to Detroit
The unlawful death of Christopher Alder
Three Strikes Law
Rodney King and the LA riots
Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western
The 16th Street church bombing
Brown v the Board of Education
Ann Lowe - African American fashion designer
The Miami riots
The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade
London's first black policeman
The first self-made female millionaire
The story of George Stinney Jr
Desmond's: A sitcom that changed Britain
Black GIs during World War Two
The killing of Amadou Diallo
Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'
The Bristol bus boycott
The Notting Hill riots
The first black woman MP in Britain
Learie Constantine - fighting racism in the UK

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Witness History: Black history

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Civil rights swim-in