Civil Rights

"Because of Bessie Coleman we have overcome that which was worse than racial barriers. We have overcome the barriers within ourselves and dared to dream." In 1920s America, the airplane was the future.

The NAACP, founded in segregationist America, has been at the forefront of the campaign for Civil Rights ever since On this day in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by civil rights activists in New York.

In the third instalment of our Radicals in Isolation series, we take a look at the often lonely – but always valuable – history of radicals on the run from the law. In last week we looked at the long and storied history of radicals in prison.

The story of the youngest ever elected female MP and her non-violent (minus 1 slap) fight for equality in Northern Ireland. There’s a woman, turning 72 today, who one Irishman recently summed up as “our ”.

Get new post updates It was 99 years ago today that died in Berlin. 89 years ago today, was born in Atlanta, Georgia.

, the Polish-born socialist, once said that "Those who do not move do not notice their chains." The fact that Luxemburg was Jewish at a time when antisemitism was virulent in central Europe added to her sense of injustice.

A prosperous black community was destroyed in Oklahoma today barely a century ago. On 31 May 1921, the Black citizens of Tulsa, Oklahoma, were besieged. For two days, a white mob launched an anti-Black pogrom in the city.