January 24, 1954 ~ Milam and Roy Bryant, two white men from Mississippi who were acquitted in the 1955 kidnapping and murder of Emmett Louis Till, confessed in look magazine. The two killers were paid a reported $4,000 for their participation in the article. January 24, 1879 ~ A white mob in Clark County, Arkansas,Continue reading “Day in the History of Racial Injustice”
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Day in the History of Racial Injustice
January 23, 1957 ~ Ku Klux Klan members forced Willie Edwards Jr., a Black resident of Montgomery, Alabama, to jump to his death from a bridge over the Alabama River; they never face prosecution for his murder. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_and_Restorative_Justice_Project
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
January 22, 1883 ~ U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. v. Harris limited Congressional authority to criminalize racial terrorism, including violent acts by the Ku Klux Klan. The Court’s decision in Harris, striking down the Force Act, dealt a devastating blow to congressional efforts to combat the widespread violence and terrorism targeting Black Southerners during ReconstructionContinue reading “Day in the History of Racial Injustice”
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
January 21, 1948 ~ Senator James Eastland of Mississippi led a successful campaign to block an anti-lynching bill, which would have held members of lynch mobs and local law enforcement officers accountable for their role in racial terror lynchings. Between 1865 and 1950, more than 6,500 Black women, men, and children were killed in racialContinue reading “Day in the History of Racial Injustice”
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
January 20, 1870 ~ Southern Democrats declared the election of Mississippi Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African American Senator, null and void and argued Black people are ineligible to serve in Congress.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
January 19, 1930 ~ Mobs of up to 500 white people roamed Watsonville, California, and the surrounding towns and farms, attacking Filipino farmworkers and their property for five days after Filipino men were seen dancing with white women.
Day in the History of 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.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
January 15, 1991 ~ In Board of Education of Oklahoma City Schools v. Dowell, U. S. Supreme Court ended federal desegregation order even though it will cause racial re-segregation of the school system.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
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.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
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.
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