1885 – White miners upset about competition for jobs kill 28 Chinese workers in Rock Springs, Wyoming, causing hundreds to … More
Category: Social Studies
Pandemic Photo O’ Day 170
1966 – Alabama passes legislation barring school districts from agreeing to desegregate after decision in Brown vs. Board of Education … More
READING! “My Paper.li” for Tuesday and Pandemic Note and Photo O’ Day 165
1874 – Mob of 400 masked men on horseback armed with shotguns kidnaps 16 black men from jail in Gibson … More
READING! “My Paper.li” for Monday and Pandemic Note and Photo O’ Day 164
August 25th – Montgomery, Alabama, home of Robert Graetz, white minister of Trinity Lutheran Church and Montgomery Association board member, … More
Pandemic Note and Photo O’ Day 162
1989 – White mob in Bensonhurst, New York, murders black teenager Yusef Hawkins for visiting a white girl. August 23rd … More
Pandemic – Marble League 2020 Update – Photo O’ Day 152
1955 – Black WWII veteran Lamar Smith is shot and killed in front of the Brookhaven, Mississippi, courthouse for urging … More
Pandemic Photo O’ Day 151 – PLUS: My Experience of Enumerating for Census 2020
2017 – White nationalists protest removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia; the next day a protester drives a … More
Pandemic Photos O’ Day 146
1930 – Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith are lynched in Marion, Indiana; 16 year-old James Cameron survives the attack and … More
Pandemic Photos O’ Day 140
1944 – In Philadelphia, PA, 6000 white transit employees strike after eight black men begin training as motormen on streetcars, … More
Pandemic Articles and Photos O’ Day 139
1919 – After a black teenager is killed for drifting into a ‘white’ section of Lake Michigan, black protests in … More
Pandemic Video and Photos O’ Day 135
1967 – Detroit Uprising ends: sparked by complaints about police brutality and racial inequality.. It left more than 1100 people … More
READING! “My Paper.li” for Friday, July 24th
Friday! Just one more of these in July after this current one. ########## Here’s the excellent sources that I feature … More
READING! “My Paper.li” for Tuesday, July 21st
It’s Tuesday during a tense week in which deeply troubling things are happening in Portland, OR. A must read article … More
Pandemic Articles, Videos and Photos O’ Day 129
2016 – Days after shooting black therapist Charles Kinsey and handcuffing him as he lay bleeding on the ground, police … More
READING! “My Paper.li” for Sunday, July 19th
It’s the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. And here’s another song by The Sundays: Here’s the excellent sources that I … More
Pandemic Articles and Photos O’ Day 127
1919 – After a black man accused of trying to rape a white woman is released, white mobs in Washington … More
Pandemic Article, Video and Photo O’ Day 125
2001 – Harvard University Civil Rights Project releases study finding that schools were more segregated in 2000 than they were … More
Presence Podcast: “Words For Now and Later: K is for KILLING” and Web Resources to Support Product Boycotts
“If you have ever watched power crumble, you know it happens very suddenly. One day a wall is up and … More
Pandemic Article, Video, and Photo O’ Day 123
1954 – U.S. Border Patrol begins ‘Operation Wetback,’ in which agents deport more than one million people to Mexico and … More
Pandemic Marble League 2020 Update and Photo O’ Day 122
NOTE: I’m going to start including this countdown image as well b/c the gap between Election Day and 20 January … More