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On this day in 1959, 21 Black teenagers burned to death in a building fire at a segregated and neglected “reform” school in Arkansas after being left alone and locked inside their dorm.
Last week, local community members working with EJI dedicated a historical marker in Hamilton County, Tennessee, memorializing Ed Johnson, a young Black man lynched by a mob in 1906.
On this day in 1921, a white lynch mob hunting a Black man saw a different Black man walking down a road and killed him instead. The mob claimed mistaken identity and faced no punishment.
On this day in 1819, Congress allocated funds to "civilize" Native American people and force Indigenous children to replace their tribal cultures with white Christianity.
On this day in 1948, white residents of Johnson County, Georgia, waged a terror campaign of violent intimidation to keep Black voters from an upcoming election.
On this day in 1921, Idaho broadened its ban on interracial marriage to bar a white person from marrying any Black person. The state's population at the time was less than .02% Black.
On this day in 1942, mobs of local white residents threatened and harassed Black families moving into new housing in Detroit. Many of these families had fled racial violence and inequality in the rural South, in a wave known as the Great Migration.
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On this day in 1869, Congress refused to seat John Willis Menard, the first Black man elected to the House of Representatives. Future president James Garfield argued it was “too early” to elect a Black person.
On this day in 2012, George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin while he was walking home from a store. Zimmerman claimed he looked "suspicious" because he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt.
On this day in 1886, white citizens in Boise, Idaho, organized an anti-Chinese convention and voted to expel Chinese citizens, who had moved to the area for work in mining and construction.
On this day in 1865, the Kentucky General Assembly refused to endorse an end to slavery in America. Kentucky did not officially ratify the Thirteenth Amendment until 1976.
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On this day in 2020, two white men killed Ahmaud Arbery, a young unarmed Black man out jogging. Local officials lied and did not hold the men accountable for months, until a video was released.
On this day in 1898, a white mob attacked Frazier Baker, the first Black postmaster of Lake City, South Carolina, and his family. Both Mr. Baker and his infant daughter were killed in the attack.
On this day in 1965, Malcolm X, an outspoken critic of racism and white supremacy, was assassinated in New York City. He was just 39 years old and left behind his wife and six young daughters.
Courageous civil rights activist Jo Ann Bland passed yesterday at 72. Her life as a seasoned activist began very young. “By the time I was 11 years old,” she once wrote, “I had been arrested at least 13 documented times.”
On this day in 1956, local officials issued arrest warrants for civil rights activists for leading a boycott to protest racial segregation on city buses. 89 would later be indicted.
On this day in 1923, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Indian immigrants had "unmistakable and profound differences” from "white" immigrants and they were legally barred from becoming U.S. citizens.
Rev. Jesse Jackson's life was a tireless fight for the cause of justice. He inspired countless others to do the same. “The arc of the moral universe is long and it bends towards justice, but you have to pull it to bend. It doesn’t bend automatically.”
On this day in 1965, an Alabama state trooper shot an unarmed Black man named Jimmie Lee Jackson twice while Mr. Jackson was trying to protect his mother and grandfather. He died 8 days later.
On this day in 1947, a white mob seized a 24-year-old Black man named Willie Earle from a local jail, brutally beat him, and lynched him near Greenville, SC. No one was ever convicted.
On this day in 1847, Missouri passed an act that prohibited Black people from learning to read and write and assembling freely for worship services. The act also forbade free Black people from migrating to the state.
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