March 2, 1807 ~ Congrss banned importation of enslaved people, effective January 1, 1808, but established no remedy for Africans illegally smuggled into the country after the enactment of the ban.
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Day in the History of Racial Injustice
March 1, 1921 ~ Idaho bans marriage between Black and white people even though the state’s population is less than .02% African American.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 28, 1942 ~ A mob of more than 1,000 white people riots outside public housing project in Detroit, Michigan, to prevent Black families from moving in.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 27, 2013 ~ Alabama officials argued before U. S. Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder that Voting Rights Act of 1965’s protections are no longer needed to prevent discrimination; on June 25, the Court agreed.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 26, 2012 ~ Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old Black boy, was murdered in Sanford, Florida; police arrested shooter George Zimmerman only after national outcry against claim that Stand Your Ground law barred his prosecution.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 24, 1865 ~ Kentucky refused to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery and does not do so until 1976.
Civil Rights Class Week 5
More than 1,700 people who served in the U.S. Congress in the 18th, 19th and even 20th centuries owned human beings at some point in their lives, according to a Washington Post investigation of censuses and other historical records. When Congress voted on the 1820 Missouri Compromise, which prohibited the expansion of slavery in theContinue reading “Civil Rights Class Week 5”
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 23, 2020 ~Ahmaud Marquez Arbery (born May 8, 1994), a 25-year-old Black man, was murdered in Satilla Shores, a neighborhood near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia, United States. Arbery was jogging when three white men decided to pursue him: Travis McMichael and his father Gregory, who were armed and in one vehicle, and theirContinue reading “Day in the History of Racial Injustice”
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 22, 1898 ~ After Frazier Barker was appointed postmaster of Lake City, South Carolina, enraged white people burned his house, fatally shot him and is infant a daughter. His wife and other children were wounded.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 21, 1891 ~ A mob of white men in Glynn County, Georgia, hung two Black men, Wesley Lewis and Henry Jackson, from a tree and shot them over 1,000 times, and left them on display for thousands of white spectators.
Relentless Robin 