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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.

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.

January 12, 1896 ~ Mob of 20 sets fire to Jefferson Parish, Louisiana home of Patrick (white) and Charlotte (Black) Morris, who were burned to death; their son, Patrick Morris Jr., escape with his life.

January 11, 1960 ~ Georgia Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr. threatened to withhold state funding from any public school that attempted to integrate Black and white students.

January 10, 1966 ~Vernon Dahmer, black business person and voting rights activist, died after his home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was firebombed.

January 9, 1961 ~Mobs of white students riot and school officials suspend Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes after they become the first Black students to integrate the University of Georgia.

January 8, 1811 ~ Largest slave insurrection in U.S. history, 1811 Slave Revolt, began in Louisiana Territory; after their defeat many of the enslaved people were mutilated, decapitated or burned alive.

January 7, 1966 ~ After student activist Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. was killed by a white gas station attendant because Younge insisted on using the white bathroom, Tuskegee University students marched to protest.