Witness History: Witness Black History

BBC World Service

Episodes

• The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

• James Brown Concert at the Boston Garden

• Muhammad Ali and the Draft

• I Have a Dream

• The Attica Prison Riot

• The Brixton Riots

• The Voyage of the Empire Windrush

• Jamaica Slave Rebellion

• Black Golfer at the US Masters

• Beverly Johnson - Vogue's First Black Covergirl

• John Howard Griffin: Black Like Me

• The Mississippi Burning Case

• The Freedom Riders

• Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins

• Mixed race marriage victory in US

• The Children's Crusade

• Josephine Baker - Black American Superstar

• The Scottsboro Boys: A Miscarriage of Justice in the US

• Black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm

• Dorothy Mulkey - US Fair Housing Campaigner

• The Death of Walter Rodney

• The Back to Africa Movement

• Haile Selassie In Jamaica

• Marcus Garvey

• Black in the USSR

• Race Riots in Liverpool

• The Dance Theatre of Harlem

• Voting Against the War on Terror

• A Black GI in China

• Bob Marley Survives Assassination Attempt

• Roots - The TV Series

• The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks

• The Unsung Hero of Heart Surgery

• The First Kwanzaa

• The "Godfather of Gospel Music"

• Photographing Martin Luther King and His Family

• Britain's first female black headteacher

• Nina Simone moves to Liberia

• Free breakfast with the Black Panthers

• Learie Constantine - fighting racism in the UK

• The first black woman MP in Britain

• The Notting Hill riots

• The Bristol bus boycott

• Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'

• The killing of Amadou Diallo

• Black GIs during World War Two

• Desmond's: A sitcom that changed Britain

• The story of George Stinney Jr

• The first self-made female millionaire

• London's first black policeman

• The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade

• The Miami riots

• Ann Lowe - African American fashion designer

• Brown v the Board of Education

• The 16th Street church bombing

• Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western

• Rodney King and the LA riots

• Three Strikes Law

• The unlawful death of Christopher Alder

• When Nelson Mandela went to Detroit

• The Battle of Lewisham

• Nasa's pioneering black women

• 'I just wanted to be white'