Author: Desto22

California officials urge the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a federal court order condemning the state’s overcrowded and dangerous prisons.

In the Sand Creek Massacre, U.S. forces attack a Cheyenne and Arapaho village in Colorado, brutally killing hundreds of people, most of whom are women and children.

Marreo Mitchell, 35, is stabbed to death at Alabama’s Donaldson Correctional Facility, becoming one of seven incarcerated people killed in Alabama prisons in 2015.

Criminologists predict youth crime wave of “radically impulsive, brutally remorseless” Black male “super-predators,” leading to laws that expose thousands of kids to adult prosecution.

Southern Poverty Law Center reports 400 physical and verbal attacks, intimidation, and harassment among women, Muslims, immigrants, and African Americans since Trump was elected earlier in the month.

Ban on racially segregated buses and waiting rooms passes but is not enforced until 1961, after Freedom Riders win Kennedy administration’s support.

Mississippi makes it a crime punishable by fines and imprisonment for free Black adults to be unemployed or to assemble, and for white people to associate with free Black people.

Tamir Rice, a Black 12 year-old boy, dies after being shot by police while playing with a toy gun in a park near his home in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mississippi requires local sheriffs to round up Black orphans and sell them to people as laborers.

U.S. Supreme Court in Gong Lum v. Rice allows a Chinese citizen’s exclusion from a state school for white children because she can attend a “colored school” with equal educational facilities.