Author: Desto22

White workers at Packard Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan, strike to protest promotion of Black workers.

Alabama legislature passes anti-immigrant law designed to force immigrants to flee the state; Governor Robert Bentley later signs it despite language that legalizes racial profiling.

White people attack prosperous Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and burn it to the ground during two days of rioting that leaves up to 300 people dead.

First of the Zoot Suit Riots, a series of violent conflicts between white sailors and Latino youth in California during World War II, breaks out this week in Los Angeles.

President Andrew Jackson signs Indian Removal Act, requiring tribes to exchange land east of the Mississippi River for territory in the West and leading to forcible removal of those who resisted.

White mob angered by Ida B. Wells’s anti-lynching editorials destroys the Memphis, Tennessee, office of her newspaper The Free Speech and Headlight; she relocates to Chicago, Illinois.

In response to eugenicists’ fears that some immigrants would pollute the American gene pool, Congress passes Immigration Act of 1924, which bars all immigration from Asia.

A white Minneapolis police office kills George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by pinning his neck to the ground and choking him, sparking global protests against policy brutality.

Federal judge rules Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, illegally targeted Latinos during raids and traffic stops based on their race.

President George Washington offers $10 reward for capture of an enslaved Black woman named Oney Judge.