February 16, 1847 ~ Missouri outlawed the education of black people and the immigration of free black people into the state.
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Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 15, 1804 ~ New Jersey passed gradual emancipation act, becoming the last Northern state to abolish slavery.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 14, 1945 ~ All-white grand jury refused to indict any of the six white med accused of raping Mrs. Recy Taylor in Abbeville, Alabama; they are never prosecuted.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 13, 1960 ~Nashville students launched sit-in demonstrations to demand an end to racial segregation at lunch counters; Fisk University student Diane Nash emerges as a leader and joins the Freedom Rides in 1961.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 12, 1901 ~After having rejected it in 1865, Delaware ratified Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. February 12, 1809 – Abraham Lincoln was born. Lincoln was the nation’s sixteenth president, leading the country from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865, a little over a month into his second term. He piloted the countryContinue reading “Day in the History of Racial Injustice”
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
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.
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.
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