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Day in the History of Racial Injustice

January 9, 1961 ~Mobs of white students riot and school officials suspend Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes after they become the first Black students to integrate the University of Georgia.

Covid Train

One of the things that I promised myself is that I would finish the stack of digital stories that I started yet had not finished in 2021. This is the first. I took the train on Thanksgiving morning from Boston to Wilmington, Delaware to visit my youngest at college. I recorded sound and video withContinue reading “Covid Train”

Day in the History of Racial Injustice

January 8, 1811 ~ Largest slave insurrection in U.S. history, 1811 Slave Revolt, began in Louisiana Territory; after their defeat many of the enslaved people were mutilated, decapitated or burned alive.

Day in the History of Racial Injustice

January 7, 1966 ~ After student activist Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. was killed by a white gas station attendant because Younge insisted on using the white bathroom, Tuskegee University students marched to protest.

Day in the History of Racial Injustice

January 6, 1959 ~Richard and Mildred Loving plead guilty to violating Virginia las against interracial marriage and received one-year sentences in prison unless they leave the state for 25 years. January 6, 2021 ~ A day when American democracy died a little. Trump had lost, but he had also won – the “big lie” hadContinue reading “Day in the History of Racial Injustice”

Day in the History of Racial Injustice

January 05, 1923 ~ A mob of over 200 white men attacked the Black community in Rosewood, Florida, killing over 30 Black women, men, and children, burning the town to the ground, and forcing all survivors to permanently flee Rosewood.

Day in the History of Racial Injustice

January 4, 1876 ~ Mississippi “pig law” passed to punish farm animal theft with 5 years in prison and to allow the state to lease prisoners to private employees. January 4, 2008 ~ A SWAT team kicked in the door at the Lima, Ohio, home of Tarika Wilson, 24, shot and killed her while sheContinue reading “Day in the History of Racial Injustice”

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.

Self Portrait Sunday

Day in the History of Racial Injustice

January 2, 1944 ~ William James Howard, a black 15-year-old, was lynched by three white men in Suwannee County, Florida, after one of the men accused Howard of writing a love note to his daughter. He was lynched for having given Christmas cards to all his co-workers at the Van Priest Dime Store, including CynthiaContinue reading “Day in the History of Racial Injustice”