North Carolina voters overwhelmingly approve amendment to disenfranchise African Americans as part of a statewide campaign to intimidate Black registered voters.
August 1, 1944
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6,000 white transit employees strike after eight Black men begin training as motormen on street cars, a job that had been reserved for white men only.
July 31, 1910
Over several days starting on July 29, white mobs shoot and kill Black residents of Anderson County, Texas, in what becomes known as the Slocum Massacre.
July 30, 1866
White mob attacks Black voters and kills 40 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
July 29, 1880
A Philadelphia newspaper publishes an ad for Nancy Williams, a Black woman seeking information about her two daughters 20 years after she was sold away from them.
July 28, 1917
Ten thousand African Americans stage a silent march through New York City to protest racial violence in the U.S.
July 27, 1919
After a Black teenager is killed for drifting into a “white” section of Lake Michigan, Black protests in Chicago are met with white violence and days of riots.
July 26, 1918
A mob of 100 white men and boys protests against a Black woman named Adella Bond for moving into a mostly white neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, leading to days of violence and arrests.
July 25, 1946
A mob of 30 armed and unmasked men lynches two Black couples, George Mae Dorsey and Roger and Dorothy Malcolm, near Moore’s Ford Bridge in Walton County, Georgia.
July 24, 1972
Washington Star reports on Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control study conducted on poor Black Alabama sharecroppers.