1967 – Detroit Uprising ends: sparked by complaints about police brutality and racial inequality.. It left more than 1100 people … More
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2016 – First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech acknowledging “I wake up every morning in a house built by slaves” sparks … More
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1910 – White man in Montgomery, Alabama, avoids prosecution after killing black taxi driver, Mitchell Johnson, who had him arrested … More
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1899 – Moments before his trial is to begin, a white mob whips Frank Embree, a black man, over 100 … More
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2016 – Days after shooting black therapist Charles Kinsey and handcuffing him as he lay bleeding on the ground, police … More
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2001 – Harvard University Civil Rights Project releases study finding that schools were more segregated in 2000 than they were … More
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1954 – U.S. Border Patrol begins ‘Operation Wetback,’ in which agents deport more than one million people to Mexico and … More
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1863 – Poor white laborers riot in New York City against Union draft that exempts African Americans and anyone else … More
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2012 – Report shows one of every 13 voting age African Americans is disenfranchised (four times more than non-black citizens); … More
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1887 – Investigation by grand jury in Hinds County, Mississippi finds that prisoners in the state’s convict leasing system are … More
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1860 – A half century after Congress banned importation of enslaved people, the ship Clotilda lands in Mobile, Alabama, as … More
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1964 – Five days after passage of the Civil Rights Act, white men beat nine black boys for trying to … More
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1919 – White people riot in African American neighborhood of Dublin, Georgia and leave two people dead, during nationwide violence … More
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2016 – Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officers shoot and kill Alton Sterling, a 37 year-old black man while he is … More
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1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats “Great White Hope Jim Jeffries in what is called the fight of the … More
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1917 – Four days of attacks on African American in East St. Louis, Illinois, leave 200 dead and cause 6000 … More
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1777 – Vermont becomes the first territory to abolish slavery, followed by New England territories north of Delaware that implement … More
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1839 – Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad seize control and order crew to sail to Africa but arrive in … More
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1829 – Cincinnati, Ohio, officials use laws to force black residents to leave city. June 30th It’s ON! Marble League … More
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1958 – Bethel Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, pastored by civil rights activist Rev. Fred Shuttleworth, is bombed. June … More