NAACP field secretary and World War II veteran Medgar Evers is assassinated by a white supremacist in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, in front of his wife and children.
June 11, 1967
White police officer fatally shoots unarmed Black teenager Martin Chambers in the back, setting off three days of riots in Tampa, Florida.
June 10, 1954
Southern governors meeting in Richmond, Virginia, vow to defy U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
June 9, 1963
Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer and other civil rights activists are arrested on false charges in Winona, Mississippi, and severely beaten by police while in jail.
June 8, 2016
Grand jury in Arlington, Texas, refuses to indict Brad Miller, a white police officer who fatally shot unarmed, 19-year-old Black student and football player, Christian Taylor in August 2015.
June 7, 1920
William Simmons, head of the Ku Klux Klan, hires publicists to grow membership; nearly 100,000 people join the terror group in the next 16 months.
June 6, 1966
Civil rights activist James Meredith is ambushed and shot several times during his one-man “Walk Against Fear” through Mississippi; he survives this shooting.
June 5, 2018
UN Human Rights Office urges U.S. to stop separating immigrant families.
June 5, 2013
North Carolina House votes to repeal Racial Justice Act, ending remedy for racial bias in capital trials.
June 4, 2011
U.S. Census reports 25.7% of African Americans and 25.4% of Hispanic Americans are living below the federal poverty line, compared to less than 10% of white Americans.