On May 7, 1955
In Belzoni, Mississippi, NAACP member Rev. George Lee is fatally shot after angering local whites when he attempted to register to vote. Read more A History of Racial Injustice Calendar […]
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On May 5, 1995
Alabama resurrects chain gangs for state prisoners this week, influencing several other states to do the same. (This picture is of women on the chain gang.) Read more A History […]
On May 3, 1946
Louisiana fails in is attempt to execute 17-year-old Willie Francis by electrocution; the state executes him a year later by electrocuting him again. Read more From A History of Racial […]
On May 2, 1963
More than 700 black children protesting racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, are arrested, blasted by fire hoses, clubbed by police and attacked by police dogs. For more information A […]
On April 28, 1936
Satisfaction Guaranteed Just before his trial for attempted assault, Lint Shaw, a 45-year old black farmer, is shot to death by a lynch mob of 40 white men in Colbert, […]
On April 27, 2015
Nine states, including Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, recognize Confederate Memorial Day as an official state holiday to commemorate the surrender of the Confederate army in April 1865. To learn […]
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 […]
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 […]
