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56 years ago today, four young girls were murdered at a black church in Alabama in an act of white supremacist terrorism.

The birthday of suffragette Annie Kenney is a good time to reflect on the Radical History of Manchester and the North West – a longtime bastion of progressive politics in the UK. Today marks 140 years since the birth of Manchester feminist legend .

Today in 1913, Jesse Owens was born in Oakville, Alabama. Two decades later, in Hitler’s Berlin, he won an Olympic 100m Gold which put a stake through the heart of Nazi racial ideology for all the world to see.

The late American historian Howard Zinn was born today in 1922.

Today all the way back in 1305, the Scottish rebel Sir William Wallace was executed in London. The death of the Scottish outlaw has long since become a symbol of freedom, in Scotland and beyond.

After decades of feminist persistence, the 19th Amendment was ratified 99 years ago today. Tennessee provided the winning margin - by just a single vote. Tennessee’s given a lot to America. Country music, Jack Daniels, Aretha Franklin.

200 years ago today, a march at St Peter's Field saw government soldiers attack a peaceful gathering of Mancunian workers, who were out demanding the right to vote.

Dr. Anna Julia Cooper, born today in 1858, stands alongside the likes of Sojourner Truth and Ida B. Wells in the long and fierce history of black women standing up to racist prejudice as part of the broader feminist movement.

45 years ago today, deep in the scandalous depths of Watergate, Richard Nixon resigned as president. What drove him out of office was not elite politicking on Capitol Hill, but rather the popular and progressive power of the American people.

Today is the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, but many of the Manhattan Project scientists who helped create it were not fans of atomic weapons – they became the founders of the movement for nuclear disarmament.