U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Korematsu v. United States, and later issues decision upholding the executive order that led to the internment of Japanese Americans.
October 10, 1933
California cotton growers trying to break strike kill Mexican diplomat and two farmworkers.
October 10, 1871
Black civil rights activist Octavius Catto killed after voting in Philadelphia.
October 9, 1893
A white mob attacks a Black couple in Weakley County, Tennessee, lynching Bob Hudson and brutally beating his wife.
October 8, 2017
Facing excessively high caseloads and inadequate funding, the Missouri State Public Defender this week refuses to take on any new cases.
October 7, 1963
State troopers join local deputies in beating and shocking with cattle prods more than 350 African Americans as they wait in line to register to vote at the county courthouse in Selma, Alabama.
October 6, 2009
Justice of the peace in Louisiana refuses to marry an interracial couple because of their race and later acknowledges he denied marriage licenses to interracial couples for years.
October 5, 1920
A mob lynches four Black men in Macclenny, Florida, seizing three from the county jail and shooting the fourth dead in the woods.
October 4, 1916
A white mob lynches William Spencer, a 30-year-old Black husband and father of four children.
October 3, 1922
U.S. Supreme Court hears argument in Ozawa v. United States, and later unanimously upholds law banning Japanese immigrants from becoming American citizens.