Author: Desto22

President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, abolishing slavery except in non-rebelling or occupied states like Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, and parts of Louisiana.

For the first time since 1881, a full year passes with no reports of any lynchings in the United States.

This week, the U.S. Army massacres as many as 300 Lakota men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek on Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota.

Harvard professor Albert Bushnell Hart tells American Historical Association in Detroit, Michigan, that states where lynchings are prevalent should legalize lynching in order to maintain order.

Rosa Jordan, a pregnant African American resident of Montgomery, Alabama, is shot in both legs while riding a desegregated bus after the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

This week, the Georgia legislature bans Creek Indians from entering the state, except on legal matters while with a respectable white person, and criminalizes hiring or trading with them.

Federal officials hang 38 Dakota men in Mankato, Minnesota, in one of the largest mass executions in American history.

Civil Rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth survives KU Klux Klan bombing of his Birmingham, Alabama home – the first of five attempts on his life over the next seven years.

Group of Confederate Army veterans establishes the Klu Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee.

Weeks after John Brown, a white man, is hanged for leading an interracial, armed rebellion against slavery, an abolitionist Boston newspaper praises his bravery and sacrifice.