Author: Desto22

After a Mobile, Alabama, jury acquits a Black man of killing a white police officer, Ku Klux Klan members randomly kidnap and kill 19-year-old Michael Donald, a Black man, and hang his body from a tree.

Virginia’s Eugenical Sterilization Act is signed into law and later becomes the model for sterilization law for other states and for Nazi Germany.

Lloyd Gaines, a Black man, disappears after U.S. Supreme Court orders him admitted to University of Missouri Law; family suspects he was murdered.

U.S. Supreme Court declares in Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia that tribes are “domestic dependent nations” whose relationship to the U.S. “resembles that of a ward to his guardian.”

Southern physician Samuel Cartwright claims discovery of “Drapetomania” that makes African Americans want to run from slavery; prescribes whipping and amputation as treatment.

Mississippi legislature votes to ratify Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery, after having rejected it in 1865.

Tuscarora Indians withstand colonists’ siege of Fort Neoheroka in North Carolina Territory for three weeks before most burn to death in fire that destroys fort; survivors join Iroquois tribe.

This week, protestors march after University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity is taped singing a song that included the n-word and “You can hang him from a tree, but he’ll never sign with me.”

Louisville, Kentucky, policy fatally shoot Breonna Taylor, an emergency room technician, in her home while executing a no-knock warrant.

U.S. congressmen from 11 Southern states issue “Southern Manifesto” declaring opposition to Brown v. Board of Education decision, which prohibited racial segregation in public schools.