1955 – Black WWII veteran Lamar Smith is shot and killed in front of the Brookhaven, Mississippi, courthouse for urging … More
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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 – 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 Update – Video and Photos O’ Day 136
1868 – Government announces ratification of Fourteenth Amendment, which establishes black citizenship but allows states to ban voters with criminal … More
Pandemic – Marble League 2020 Update – Articles and Photos O’ Day 133
1890 – March Cook, a white advocate for black voting rights, is murdered in Jasper County, Mississippi, by white men … More
