Category Archives: Racial Injustice

January 18, 1962 ~ The president of Southern University closed the Baton Rouge. Louisiana, campus, citing ‘disruptive’ student protests against segregation. January 18, 1771, the North Carolina General Assembly approved the disbursement of public funds to enslavers as compensation for the executions of Black people they held in bondage.

January 14, 1931 ~ Black residents of Maryville, Missouri, fled the city after a white mob chained a Black man, Raymond Gunn, accused of killing a white teacher to the top of the schoolhouse and burned it down, killing the man without a trial.

January 13, 1957 ~ In Montgomery, Alabama, the congregations of four Black churches gathered for Sunday services three days after their churches and two homes were bombed.

January 12, 1896 ~ Mob of 20 sets fire to Jefferson Parish, Louisiana home of Patrick (white) and Charlotte (Black) Morris, who were burned to death; their son, Patrick Morris Jr., escape with his life.

January 11, 1960 ~ Georgia Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr. threatened to withhold state funding from any public school that attempted to integrate Black and white students.

January 10, 1966 ~Vernon Dahmer, black business person and voting rights activist, died after his home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was firebombed.

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.

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.