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Timeline

1909 The National Association for the 1972 Aboriginal activists set up a “tent
Advancement of Colored People assembly” outside the Australian
(NAACP) is founded in New York. parliament to protest land rights.
1920 The American Civil Liberties Union 1977 Disabled activists hold the 504
(ACLU) is founded. Sit-In in San Francisco and other
cities to protest the slow progress
1932 In India, Mohandas K. Gandhi holds
his first hunger strike. of disability rights legislation.
1994 Nelson Mandela is elected
1944 The National Congress of American
Indians is founded after Native president in South Africa’s first
American service in World War II. fully democratic elections.
2012 Canadian activists form Idle No
1946 Viola Desmond refuses to leave the More to fight for First Nations
White section of a theater in Nova sovereignty and land protection.
Scotia—a key moment in the civil
rights movement in Canada. 2013 Black Lives Matter (BLM) is formed
when the killer of Black American
1954 NAACP lawyers persuade the
Supreme Court to outlaw Trayvon Martin is freed by a court.
segregation in education. 2018 The Windrush campaign forces the
British government to allow long-
1956 A year-long public boycott leads
to the desegregation of buses in term immigrants from the
Montgomery, Alabama. Caribbean to remain in the country.
2020 BLM coordinates global protests
1963 More than 250,000 people join the following the police killing of
March on Washington to claim George Floyd in Minneapolis.
better rights for Black Americans.
1963 In Bristol, UK, a boycott forces the
bus company to change a policy
outlawing Black workers.
1969 Activists occupy Alcatraz Island in
San Francisco to highlight Native
American land rights.
1969 A riot breaks out when police
raid the Stonewall Inn in New York
City. The event leads to a new
type of gay rights activism.

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