News from communities around Los Angeles
January 10, 1957
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and 60 other Black activists organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a direct action organization aimed at gaining equal rights for Black Americans.
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Malcolm X, an African-American Muslin minister and human rights activist who led the Nation of Islam, was shot to death by three assassins while giving […]
March 17, 1999 Maurice Ashley becomes the first Black person to become a chess grandmaster. The rank is conferred by the International Chess Federation to […]
On May 14, 1991, Winnie Mandela is sentenced to six years in prison in South Africa for her involvement in the kidnapping and beating of […]