Author: Desto22

This week, the Georgia legislature bans Creek Indians from entering the state, except on legal matters when accompanied by a respectable white person, and makes it a crime to hire or trade with them.

Six Black men are lynched over two days in Early County, Georgia, after they are accused of being involved in the killing of a white overseer.

U.S. Army massacres as many as 300 Lakota men, women, and children, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Rosa Jordan, a pregnant African American resident of Montgomery, Alabama, is shot in both legs while riding a desegregated bus after the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

A mob of masked men lynches a 23-year-old Black veteran named Powell Green near Franklinton, North Carolina.

Federal officials hang 38 Dakota men in Mankato, Minnesota, in one of the largest mass executions in American history.

Civil Rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth survives Ku Klux Klan bombing of his Birmingham, Alabama, home- the first of five attempts on his life over the next seven years.

Group of Confederate Army veterans establishes the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee.

Weeks after John Brown, a white man, is hanged for leading an interracial, armed rebellion against slavery, an abolitionist Boston newspaper praises his bravery and sacrifice.

The Macon Republican newspaper in Tuskegee, Alabama, publishes a notice from Sheriff G.W. Nuckolls advertising the sale of 23-year-old enslaved Black man named Bob.