Author: Desto22

Federal court in Alabama this week upholds Republican redistricting plan that reduces Black voting power.

Black citizens in Montgomery, Alabama, desegregate buses after 13-month boycott; bus company resumes full service.

Michael Griffith, a 23-year-old Black man, is hit by a car and killed after a white mob chases him onto the highway in Howard Beach, New York.

South Carolina passes law that requires Black “servants” to enter into labor contracts with white “masters” to work from dawn to dusk, and to maintain a “polite” demeanor.

Government announces ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime.

Union General Ulysses S. Grant expels Jewish people from the Tennessee district based on anti-Semitic prejudice but later rescinds the order at President Lincoln’s request.

Days after a Black family refuses to leave their white Fontana, California, neighborhood, an explosion destroys their home and kills all four family members.

Harvard President Albert Lowell this week defends ban of Black students from residence halls and dining rooms, saying “we do not owe to them inclusion in a social system with white people.”

Alabama is admitted to the Union as the 22nd state, and the 11th state that allows slavery.

U.S. government declares Indian Sikh man born in Punjab ineligible for U.S. citizenship because he is not a “free white man”; U.S. Supreme Court later affirms in U.S. v. Thind.