Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson, the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week the fight to protect women from domestic violence in Afghanistan.

People are not happy with the safe house because people say that this is against the culture

that we are encouraging women to run away because mostly when a woman was run away it means that she's not a good woman.

Also the world's fastest and most successful vaccine maker,

sadly he was around in the 1960s not now,

plus environmental campaigners confronting Loggers in Malaysia and the son of the German

army officer who tried to blow up Hitler.

You know I was just about to become a little Nazi like all of us, but we never discussed that for my father.

That's all coming up later in the podcast, but with the US still gripped by tensions over the Black Lives Matter movement, we're going to begin by taking another

look at a key moment in American race relations.

This is from 25 years ago, when hundreds of thousands of African Americans from across the USA gathered in Washington,

D.C. in an attempt to put black issues on the government agenda and to present a positive

image of black American men. The organizers called it the Million Man March.

Ben Carter has been speaking to one of the few women to take part that day.

On October the 16th, 1995, hundreds of thousands of African Americans from across the

USA gathered in huge numbers to march on the nation's capital in an attempt to put black issues back on the

government agenda and to present a positive image of black American men.

Organizers called it the Million Man March.

It was a sea of people. I don't know where the

crowd started and where it ended because there were just people everywhere.

And when I looked at the pictures in the Washington Post the next day

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