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In the late 1960s and early 70s, the Black Panther Party was a major political force. The party's Kansas City, Missouri…

On April 25th, 1974, the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) of dissident Portuguese Army officers led a military coup,…

In Chicago in 1969, Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party founded the original Rainbow Coalition, an anti-racist,…

A protest movement spread across Japan in 1918 in response to inflated costs of rice. On top of existing inflation, the…

"Yes I was a slave and I'll say this to the whole world: Slavery was the worst curse ever visited on the people of the…

In the early 1700s, Queen Nanny and the Windward Maroons used guerrilla warfare to defeat the British from the mountains…

The Dil Pickle Club was an underground literary nightspot in Chicago from 1914-1933, home to hobohemians, Newberry…

In 1989, Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement), formed to protest the damming of the Narmada River, which…

Two fiery activists, organizers, movement founders, and writers who began, throughout the gritty reality of…

Erik Ruin's homage to the 17th century British revolutionaries who created small agrarian communities in hopes of…

Grace Paley, 1922–2007. Poet laureate, educator, peace activist, feminist, short story writer. "It is the…

Crass (1977-1984) was a group of artists, activists, writers, filmmakers, and musicians that banded together using punk…

Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, was the first slave to win her freedom in court on human…

This is definitely one of the most beautiful Celebrate People's History posters yet! An amazing block print celebrating…

In the summer of 1966, an organization of queer and trans street youth called The Vanguard staged a street sweeping in…

The Paris Commune was a popular-led revolution and democratic government that ruled Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871.…

Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper and union organizer deep in Amazon rainforest, pioneered the combination of environmental…

In April 1921, the Seki Ran Kai (Red Waves Society) was formed with socialism as its goal. It was the first…

Beginning in 1791 and lasting through 1804, the Haitian Revolution was the only slave revolt in the "New World" to turn…

In 1911, the Kalamazoo Corset Company was the largest manufacturer of women’s corsets in the world. In spring of 1912,…

This Celebrate People’s History poster honors Jewish involvement in anti-colonial struggles. The Israeli Socialist…

August 10 is Prison Justice Day. PJD started in Canada in 1976 to pay tribute to prisoners who died in prison. On this…

It was the autumn of 1969. Thousands of American Indians occupied the abandoned remains of Alcatraz, the federal…

Since the early 1980s, ADAPT has been a national network of activists with disabilities that employs nonviolent civil…

On December 11, 1921, propelled by the need to feed their children and outraged at Kansas’s new antilabor legislation,…

Sylvia Ray Rivera is back in all her glory. Sylvia, a Puerto Rican and Venezuelan transwoman from New York City, was a…

The International Hotel was a low-income residential hotel that became the most dramatic housing-rights battleground in…

The Lesbian Herstory Archives opened in 1974 in the Upper West Side Manhattan apartment of Joan Nestle and Deborah Edel.…

The Rani of Jhansi was born in 1828 and her early education was unusual for girls at the time: wrestling, swordfighting,…

San Francisco 1966: Transwomen and drag queens working in the Tenderloin district of San Fransisco often took refuge in…