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Martin Luther King led the Civil Rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until he was assassinated in 1968. King was involved in helping to orchestrate the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He was e...

The Black Power movement was largely associated with a man named Stokely Carmichael in the 1960s Civil Rights period. The phrase was confusing. Some saw it as a cry against white cruelty against blacks, a...

Henry VIII broke with the Catholic church in the 1530s in order to divorce his first wife, Catherine of Aragon and marry his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Henry declared himself supreme head of the Church in ...

Henry had to keep his claim from being usurped from many in House York. Henry was successful in securing his throne due to him being a very astute man. He knew there were those who would question his legi...

Henry Tudor had a very small claim to the English throne when he was born in on January 28th, 1457. Henry belonged to the House of Lancaster and the role Plantagenet line, through his mother, Margaret Bea...