Day in the History of Racial Injustice

January 03, 1895 ~ Nineteen Hopi leaders were imprisoned on Alcatraz Island for opposing government assimilation efforts, which included confining farming to plots and forcibly enrolling Hopi children in boarding schools. The leaders were imprisoned for a year.

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