Author: Desto22

More than 300 activists are sent to notorious Parchman Farm prison for marching against segregation and racial terrorism in Natchez, Mississippi.

After Governor Ross Barnett orders state troopers to block the school entrance, federal marshals intervene and James Meredith becomes the first Black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.

White people massacre nearly 200 people in Elaine, Arkansas, after Black sharecroppers demand fair prices.

Alabama legislature bars white female nurses from treating Black male patients.

White people in Opelousas, Louisiana, attack a local white man for registering Black voters, hang 20 Black people who defend him, and riot, leaving over 200 unarmed Black people and over 30 white people dead.

In Little Rock, Arkansas, residents vote to close public schools rather than integrate; schools remain closed for one year.

In Warrior, Alabama, Pastor Manuel Hernandez is arrested this week under the state’s new anti-immigrant law hours after a federal judge upholds the law’s key passages.

Alabama Supreme Court this week upholds civil rights activist Mary Hamilton’s contempt conviction for not responding to prosecutor who used her first name but called white people “Mrs.” or “Mr.”

Virginia Assembly enacts a law this week declaring that enslaved Africans who convert to Christianity will not be freed from bondage.

White jurors in Mississippi acquit Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam in Emmett Till murder.