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 […]
Category Archives: African American History
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. […]
On April 17, 2006
David Ritcheson, a Latino 16-year-old who was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted after trying to kiss a white girl at a party in Texas, testifies before Congress in support of […]
On April 16th in 1848
In Washington, D.C., more than 70 enslaved Africans were captured during the nation’s largest-ever slave escape attempt; in the aftermath, pro-slavery mobs target abolitionists in riots that last for days. […]
Lynching Memorial and Slavery – Montgomery
Finally there is a memorial to those who were lynched and who struggled under slavery. It is a new museum opening in Montgomery this month, lest we forget. Learn more […]
A Better Use of the National Guard
It occurs to me that we have a better place to put the National Guard than the border. How about deploying them in schools to protect the kids we obviously […]
Home of the Brave – Unionville
Did you know there is a town in the United States that was the only town founded by African American civil war soldiers? It’s still there today. The first […]
Making a Difference, Then and Now
I was fortunate to be part of Ann Curry’s new series, “We’ll Meet Again,” in February. My segment was titled “Freedom Summer.” It caught the eye of Wendy Schultz at […]
