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

In mid 2012, protests erupted in Khartoum opposition to the the reign of Omal al-Bashir and his National Congress party,…

Sojourner Truth was famous for her dedication to the abolitionist and feminist causes, and for overcoming such radical…

Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas was born in Nigeria in 1900. Funmilayo (the name she went by) was the fisty female…

In St. Louis, Missouri in 1933, 500 Black women who worked for the Funsten Nut Company mounted a successful strike…

In the early 1920s, a group of Korean student activists in Tokyo got together to form an anarchist group, Futeisha, or…

In 1920, women incarcerated at New York's Bedford Hills Correctional Facility staged a series of 'sonic riots.' One…

In 1936, when the Olympics were held in Nazi Germany, Barcelona set about hosting the Olimpiada Popular, an explicitly…

The precursor to today's Planned Parenthood, the American Birth Control League was founded by Margaret Sanger in 1921.…

Co-founder of COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras) Berta Cáceres struggled to…

"We will not kill for your profits. We will not sacrifice for your profits." These words were stenciled in mud by Iraq…

From 1972 to 1991, former Chicago police commander, John Burge, and his men systematically tortured over 119…

Dedicated to the cause of racial equality from a young age, Anne Braden was an activist, journalist, and educator who…

Raised in Hawaii, but originally from the Marshall Islands, poet and performance artist Kathy Jetnil-Kijner retains…

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

This poster, part of the "Celebrate People's History" poster series from Justseeds, describes the history of Os…

In London and in cities around the globe, twelve thousand festive, masked people stormed the city’s financial district…

The Contract Buyers League were Black homeowners in Chicago, Illinois, who banded together to stop the practice of…

This poster, part of the Celebrate People's History series, depicts a scene with Septima Poinsette Clark, a Civil Rights…

In 2011 at an Occupy protest in Oakland, CA, two-time Iraq veteran Scott Olsen was shot in the head by police,…

On October 30, 1950, many cities in Puerto Rico rose up to revolt against the island's government, including an uprising…

This poster, part of the Celebrate People's History series, depicts the workers of the Republic Windows and Doors…

“We started in the ’90s with 3, then 5, then 40 cases of innocent guys all framed by crooked cop Detective Reynaldo…