Author: Desto22

Texas legislature authorizes counties to employ jail inmates in public works and to lease them to private employers, with all profits going to county treasuries.

A young Black man named Orion “Owen” Anderson is lynched in Leesburg, Virginia, for frightening a white girl by wearing a sack on his head.

Fisk University dean and student die from injuries sustained in a car accident after segregated Georgia hospital refuses to treat them.

Colored Alabamian reports that a Black wagon driver in Montgomery, Alabama, was shot dead because he did not “drive as far to the right as a white man thought he should.”

Police officer Johannes Mehserle is sentenced to two years for fatally shooting Black 22-year-old Oscar Grant III in the back while he was facedown on a train platform in Oakland, California.

Benjamin Tillman, a white supremacist who advocated violence against Black voters and opposed education for African Americans, is elected governor of South Carolina.

Alabama repeals 1901 state constitutional ban on interracial marriage, although a majority of white voters favor keeping the ban.

Alabama voters reject constitutional amendment that would remove from state constitution a provision requiring separate schools for “white and colored children.”

U.S. opens Pennsylvania school to force Native American children to assimilate.

Choctaw Nation begins forced march from Mississippi to Oklahoma; 1 in 3 die in “Trail of Tears.”