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When we think of the Civil Rights Movement we think of the United States - but it happened here too...'s refusal to leave her seat in 1955 made waves not just across the United States, but also across the world.

Born on this day in 1822, Ulysses S. Grant used his presidency to fight for racial equality... A photograph from the 1869 Inauguration of Ulysses S.

Killed on this day in 1919, Zapata's radical legacy lives on...“Little star in the nightthat rides the sky like a witch,where is our chief Zapatawho was the scourge of the rich?" - Mexican BalladEmiliano Zapata, the Mexican revolutionary hero, was assassinated today in 1919.Alongside the likes of and , he symbolises the revolutionary tradition in Latin America.

How one man led a ship of black slaves into freedom... The Underground Railroad shuttled countless enslaved black people out of the South during the mid-19th century, but it was not the only way to freedom.

On this day in 1820, a Radical Insurrection swept across ScotlandWhen the Napoleonic Wars came to an end in 1815, Radical politics was at a low ebb across the British Isles.

Elected to the British Parliament in 1922, Saklatvala was born on this day in 1874 What is it that connects Battersea in South London, the Indian corporate giant Tata Steel, and the Communist Party of Great Britain?

"Informed opposition to apartheid...

How one pamphlet infuriated the entire British establishment Long before the in the US, there was the trial of Thomas Paine in England. But in the 1790s, the spectre haunting the British Establishment was republicanism, not socialism.

Earlier this week was International Women's Day, and today we are celebrating one woman who galvanised the fight for women's suffrage across the world...

A Miners' Strike Rally in London in 1984 (Image by nicksarebi) “We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands.