On April 26, 1960
At Biloxi Beach, more than 100 black men, women, and children are attacked and beaten by whites during a peaceful protest for the right to access beaches in Mississippi. A […]
Category Archives: U.S. History
On April 25, 1959
White mob beats, shoots, and throws chained body of Mack Charles Parker, a black man, into the Pearl River after he is accused of raping a white woman in Poplarville, […]
On April 24, 1877 and 2013
On April 24, 1877, Federal troops withdraw from Louisiana marking the end of Reconstruction. On April 24, 2013, Alabama man sentenced to jail for consensual homosexual sex. A History of […]
On April 23, 1899
In Newman, Georgia, thousands gather to watch the brutal lynching of Sam Hose, a black man who is mutilated and burned alive; spectators afterwards gather body parts to sell as […]
On April 22, 1987
U.S. Supreme Court upholds death penalty in McCleskey v. Kemp despite proof it is racially biased, reasoning that racial discrimination in the criminal justice is “inevitable.” There are so many […]
On April 21, 2007
Turner County High School in Ashburn, Georgia, holds its first racially integrated prom; in prior years, parents had organized private, segregated proms for white and black students. See more… Above […]
125 years late, Chinese lawyer admitted to bar: STATE’S TOP COURT SAYS IT ERRED IN 1890 RULING
Lest it seems like I only write about black Americans, here is an article about the plight of the Chinese in California. I think the Chinese were the first group […]
On April 20, 2012
First decision under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act finds that racial bias infected Marcus Roinson’s capital trial 18 years earlier and commutes his death sentence to life without parole. […]
On April 19, 1989
Five black and Latino teens are arrested for raping a jogger in New Your City’s Central Park and spend more than a decade in prison before being exonerated. More here.
On April 18, 1946
Navy veteran Davis Knight marries a white woman in Ellisville, Mississippi, and is later sentenced to five years in prison for miscegenation based on testimony that his great-grandmother was black. […]
