White people riot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after Charles Miller, a Black man, enters a public restaurant.
August 21, 1865
Mass violence against Black people by white people in Montgomery, Alabama, was first reported to Congress after nearly 20 Black people were hospitalized or attacked.
August 20, 1619
Dutch ship lands in Jamestown, Virginia, carrying the first enslaved people to what would become the United States.
August 19, 1916
A mob of 200 white farmers hangs a 21-year-old Black man named Ed Lang in Navarro County, Texas.
August 18, 1989
The state of Alabama executes Herbert Richardson, a Black Vietnam War veteran who suffered from severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and other psychiatric illnesses.
August 17, 1923
An estimated 1,000 white men and women participate in a Ku Klux Klan initiation outside of Warwick, New York.
August 16, 1904
A mob of masked white men in Marengo County, Alabama, lynch Rufus Lesseur, a 24-year-old Black man, and leave his body riddled with bullets.
August 15, 1963
Nine years after Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation ruling, 32 teenagers are jailed for protesting segregated schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia.
August 14, 1908
After failed lynching attempt, mob of 5,000 white people storms Black neighborhoods, burns Black businesses and homes, and kills Black citizens in Springfield, Illinois, riots.
August 13, 1955
Black WWI veteran Lamar Smith is shot and killed in front of the Brookhaven, Mississippi, courthouse for urging Black residents to vote; no one is arrested despite numerous witnesses.