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”
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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.
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