1885 – White miners upset about competition for jobs kill 28 Chinese workers in Rock Springs, Wyoming, causing hundreds to … More
Category: Pandemic Photo O’ Day
Pandemic Photo O’ Day 171
1884 – Superintendent denies Mamie Tape, a Chinese American child, admission to public school in San Francisco this week saying … More
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” and Pandemic Note and Photo O’ Day 168
2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates the U.S. Gulf Coast; the subsequent disaster response is criticized for mistreating many severely impacted … More
READING! “My Paper.li” and Pandemic Note and Photo O’ Day 167
1955 – Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, white members of the Ku Klux Klan, abduct 14 year old Emmett Till … 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 Note and Photo O’ Day 161
1905 – White people riot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after Charles Miller, a black man enters a public restaurant. August 22nd … More
Pandemic Note and Photo O’ Day 159
1619 – Dutch ships lands in Jamestown, Virginia, carrying the first enslaved people to what would become the United States. … 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 Article and Photos O’ Day 149
1988 – More than 45 years after internment of Japanese Americans began, the U.S. government authorizes reparations payments to the … More
Pandemic – Marble League 2020 Update – Photo O’ Day 148
2014 – Eight days after graduating from high school, black teenager Michael Brown is shot and killed by a white … 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 Video and Photos O’ Day 145
1965 – More than a century after black Americans are granted voting rights, the federal Voting Rights Act is enacted … More
Pandemic Photo O’ Day 144
2014 – Black workers at Memphis, Tennessee, cotton gin file discrimination lawsuit after white supervisor uses racial slurs and threatens … More
Pandemic – Marble League 2020 Update – Photos O’ Day 143
1964 – Bodies of murdered civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman are discovered in a Mississippi … More
Pandemic – Marble League 2020 – Photos O’ Day 142
2019 – Suspected white nationalist commits mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people and wounding 24. August 3rd … 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
