Denmark Vesey, a Black carpenter accused of plotting a slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina, is executed; 34 others are later executed for attempting an insurrection that never happened.
July 1, 1839
Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad seize control and order crew to sail to Africa but arrive in the U.S. to face murder and piracy charges; they are later acquitted and returned to their homeland.
June 30, 1829
Cincinnati, Ohio, officials use law to force Black residents to leave the city.
June 29, 1958
Bethel Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, pastored by civil rights activist Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, is bombed.
June 28, 1844
After slavery is declared illegal in Oregon, the state this week passes first laws prohibiting Black people from residing in state and authorizing whipping of Black people found there.
June 27, 1969
New York City police raid the Stonewall Inn, an LGBTQ club, leading to an LGBTQ rights movement known as the Stonewall Uprising.
June 26, 2011
White teens kill James Craig Anderson, a Black man, in a hate crime in Jackson, Mississippi.
June 26, 1959
Prince Edward County, Virginia, avoids integration by closing schools for years.
June 25, 1964
Hundreds attack anti-segregation march in St. Augustine, Florida, injuring more than 50 African American protestors.
June 24, 2013
This week, Kimberly McCarthy becomes the 500th person executed by the State of Texas since 1972; more than half of those executed have been people of color.