Author: Desto22

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.

First decision under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act finds that racial bias infected Marcus Robinson’s capital trial 18 years earlier and commutes his death sentence to life without parole.

Five Black and Latino teens are arrested for raping a jogger in New York City’s Central Park and spend more than a decade in prison before being exonerated.

Navy veteran Davis Knight marries a white woman in Ellisville, Mississippi; he is later sentenced to five years in prison for miscegenation based on testimony that his great grandmother was Black.