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

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

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

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84 - The 16th Street church bombing

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83 - Brown v the Board of Education

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82 - The Miami riots

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76 - The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade

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75 - London's first black policeman

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73 - Free breakfast with the Black Panthers

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72 - Nina Simone moves to Liberia

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71 - The story of George Stinney Jr

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70 - Desmond's: A sitcom that changed Britain

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69 - Black GIs during World War Two

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67 - Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'

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65 - The Notting Hill riots

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64 - The first black woman MP in Britain

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