Author: Desto22

A white mob lynches Marie Scott, a 17-year-old Black teenage girl, in Wagoner County, Oklahoma.

A white mob lynches a Black man named George Franklin in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.

Reverend Isaac Simmons, a Black man, is buried three days after he is murdered by six white men who want to steal his family’s land in Mississippi; his father is threatened and flees Amite County.

Four white men abduct a 27-year-old Black man, Melvin Womack, from his home in Oakland, Florida, beat him, shoot him, and leave him to die days later from his injuries.

Delbert Tibbs, a Black hitchhiker from Chicago, is indicted for murder of a white man and rape of a white woman in Florida; he is wrongfully convicted by an all-white jury and spends two years on death row.

In Scottsboro, Arkansas, nine Black teens are accused of raping two white women and almost lynched; the “Scottsboro Boys” gain national attention after their racially biased trial results in their death sentences.

Viola Liuzzo, a white woman from Detroit, Michigan, is shot and killed after driving voting rights activists to Selma, Alabama.

Creek Indians sign Treaty of Cusseta with U.S. under which they are stripped of land in Alabama; they are forcibly removed from the state by 1837.

Tennessee passes laws authorizing racial discrimination in hotels, public transportation, and “places of amusement.”

Police in Atlanta, Georgia, arrest a white woman and Black man for walking and talking together on the street.