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In 1936, the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie was exiled in Bath in the UK
In 1987, Waris Dirie had her first photo-shoot and became a supermodel sensation
The campaign to return Sarah Baartman to South Africa nearly 200 years after her death
The first African-American woman to lead a World War Two battalion
She overcame poverty, health problems and racism to become one of Peru’s greatest singers
In 1973 a fashion show was held in France which the media dubbed the Battle of Versailles
In 1986, Charlotte Mensah went to work in the UK's first luxury Afro-Caribbean hair salon
Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat helped end segregation in the United States
In 2013, South Africa's first black president was buried in his ancestral village
How a protest by black activists in 1963 led to the UK's first anti-racism laws
MoMA bought photos from an African-American woman for the first time in 1979.
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was brutally murdered in Mississippi
In 1968, when Petula Clark touched Harry Belafonte's arm, it made US TV history
She received numerous Hugos and Nebulas - top writing prizes for sci-fi writing
Jimmy Cliff spoke about the film that brought reggae music to the world in 1972
In 1959, Claudia Jones held a Caribbean party, planting the seeds for the famous carnival
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's first black producer, Una Marson, and the beginnings of the Caribbean Service
In 1985, a guide was written for young black men in the US who were stopped by the police
Manchester’s first racially inclusive nightclub
On 22 June 1948, the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in England
How a pioneering African-American journalist campaigned against lynching in the US
The black Florida teenager killed by a Neighbourhood Watch volunteer while buying sweets.
In 1967 an African American church minister began preaching that Jesus was black.
Only one Congresswoman voted against the 'war on terror'. Her name was Barbara Lee.
