Witness History: Black history

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Episodes

Star Trek: America's first interracial TV kiss

The last of the Mau Mau fighters

Ashley Kriel: South Africa's anti-apartheid 'Che Guevara'

Nelson Mandela's incarceration at Robben Island

Uncovering a lost burial ground in Rio

Civil rights swim-in

Charleston church shooting

King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical

How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965

When Emperor Haile Selassie lived in exile in England

Waris Dirie: Destined to be famous

Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home

Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight

The Battle of Versailles: Catwalk clash of American and French fashion

How Rosa Parks took a stand against racism

Lucha Reyes: Peruvian music star

Queen of the 'fro

The funeral of Nelson Mandela

The Bristol bus boycott

The Empire Windrush arrives