BBC World Service - Witness History

Ming Smith makes history at MoMA

MoMA bought photos from an African-American woman for the first time in 1979.

In 1968, British photographer travelled to Vietnam for his second ever war assignment

Malick Sidibé photographed life in Mali after its independence from France in 1960.

In 1958, aspiring photographer Art Kane captured 57 jazz legends in one immortal image

In 1945 the war correspondent Lee Miller was photographed in Adolf Hitler's bath

In June 1955, more than 80 people were killed and 100 injured at the Le Mans 24-hour race

On 25 January 1933 the last legal communist march was held in Berlin

In 2005, Ilguilas Weila organised a ceremony to free 7,000 enslaved people in Niger

In 1975, Richard Neave invented a method to rebuild the face of an Egyptian mummy

In 1960s, the Canadian government took academically gifted Inuit children from the homes