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Black Civil Rights Movement
 
In the USA, Rosa Parkes galvanised the black civil rights movement when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.

In the UK, Claudia Jones founded the West Indian Gazette and the Notting Hill Carnival.

 
 
 
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