February 11, 1906 ~Bunk Richardson, a black man, was lynched by a white mob in Gadsden, Alabama, terrorized the black community and forced his relatives to abandon their businesses and leave town.
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Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 10, 1915 ~ The Birth of a Nation premiered this week in Los Angeles; with white supremacist themes and white actors in blackface, the hit film celebrating the KKK was screened in the White House by President Woodrow Wilson.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 9, 1960 ~ A bomb exploded at the home of Carlotta Walls, the youngest of nine black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, three years prior.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 8, 1968 ~ White state troopers fired into a crowd of African American students at South Carolina State College, killing three and injuring 28, after students attempted to desegregate a bowling alley.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 7, 1904 ~A black man named Luther Holberg and an unidentified black woman are tortured, mutilated, and burned alive in front of 600 picnicking white spectators in Doddsville, Mississippi.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 6, 1902 ~ A mob of white people seized a 19-year-old black man, Thomas Brown, from jail and lynched him on the courthouse lawn after he was accused of assault in Nicholasville, Kentucky.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 5, 1917 ~ Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 to keep out Asian, Mexican, and Mediterranean people, and those with mental or physical disabilities or criminal records,
Civil Rights Class Week 2
Click Link below to play graphic. https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/1619-african-slavery-history-maps-routes-interactive-graphic/ Homework 1: Monday 31 Read 1664-1669 The Virginia Law on Baptism by Jemar Tisby Notes from reading: Black people remain the most Christian demographic in the United States yet Christianity is the “white man’s religion.” White Christians deliberately used religion to strengthen a racial caste system. 1667 VirginiaContinue reading “Civil Rights Class Week 2”
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 4,1999 NYPD officers fatally shoot unarmed Amadou Diallo 41 times. February 4, 1846 ~ Alabama launched convict leasing at Wetumpka State Penitentiary and its inmates to private businessman.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 3, 1956 – Autherine Juanita Lucy enrolled as a graduate student in library science at the University of Alabama, becoming the first African American ever admitted to a white public school or university in the state. She attended her first class on Friday, February 3, 1956. On Monday, February 6, 1956, riots broke outContinue reading “Day in the History of Racial Injustice”
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