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Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols talked space, race, singing & more in these vintage interviews

In this collection of vintage interviews, actress Nichelle Nichols (1932-2022) talked about her role as Uhura on Star Trek. Through her own words and vintage photos, you can find out about the groundbreaking star’s life both before and after the Enterprise took flight.

The Kerner Report, a groundbreaking 1968 study of racism in America, was ignored by the president who ordered it

In the early morning hours of July 23, 1967, police in Detroit raided an unlicensed, after-hours bar in what they assumed was just another routine

Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination: The shooting & aftermath of Dr King’s death (1968)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Nobel Peace Prize winner who made nonviolence his chief weapon in the fight for civil rights, was shot to death in 1968. His assassination triggered violence across the nation. Find out more here.

Charlton Heston, James Baldwin, Marlon Brando and Harry Belafonte join in the movement - Civil Rights March Washington DC

James Baldwin in 1968: Whites have no reason to be surprised by civil rights movement

Original Editor’s note from 1968: This article by the noted author James Baldwin… is an attempt to explain to whites the militant Negro’s reaction to ‘black power,’ as well as the Negro revolution now in progress. It is bitter, but not devoid of hope.

Birth of the sit-in movement, 10 years on (1970)

There’s no sign proclaiming the FW Woolworth lunch counter here as the birthplace, 10 years ago today, of the sit-in movement that brought a new way of community life to the dual service and segregated South of the 1960s.

Martin Luther King Jr’s ‘I have a dream’ speech (1963)

“I have a dream” by the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom August