Author: Desto22

All-white jury finds the officers who violently beat Rodney King, a young Black man in Los Angeles, not guilty, sparking an uprising in which more than 50 people died and over 2,000 were injured.

Just before his trial for attempted assault, Lint Shaw, a 45-year-old Black farmer, is shot to death by a mob of 40 white men in Colbert, Georgia.

Nine states, including Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia, recognize Confederate Memorial Day as an official state holiday to commemorate the surrender of the Confederate army in April 1865.

At Biloxi Beach this week, more than 100 Black men, women, and children are attacked and beaten by white people during peaceful protest for the right to access beaches in Mississippi.

A white mob beats, shoots, and throws chained body of Mack Charles Parker, a Black man, into the Pearl River after he is accused of raping a white woman in Poplarville, Mississippi.

Alabama man sentenced to jail for consensual sex with another man.

Federal troops withdraw from Louisiana, marking the end of Reconstruction.

In Newnam, GA, thousands gather to watch the brutal lynching of Sam Hose, a Black man who is mutilated and burned alive; spectators afterwards gather body parts to sell as souvenirs.

U.S. Supreme Court upholds death penalty in McCleskey v. Kemp despite proof it is racially biased, reasoning that racial discrimination in the criminal justice system is “inevitable.”

Turner County High School in Ashburn, Georgia, holds first racially integrated prom; in prior years, parents had organized private, segregated proms for white and Black students.