After decades of “redlining” and other policies barred many Black Americans from home ownership, President John F. Kennedy orders an end to racial discrimination in federally financed housing.
November 19, 1988
Judge in Dallas, Texas, gives reduced sentence to white student for targeted killing of two gay men, likening the victims to prostitutes and refusing “to give somebody life for killing a prostitute.”
November 18, 1983
Chicago police beat, electrocute, and threaten to castrate James Cody, one of more than 100 Black men the department systematically tortured over three decades.
November 17, 1828
Alabama General Assembly passes act to extend the State of Alabama’s jurisdiction over the Creek Nation, making state laws enforceable in Creek Nation territory.
November 16, 2015
Despite public outrage over a Texas history textbook that depicted enslaved people as “workers from Africa,” state lawmakers this week reject proposal to require that textbooks be fact-checked.
November 15, 2010
Former police officer James Bonard Fowler pleads guilty to 1965 murder of civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson in Marion, Alabama, and is sentenced to six months in jail.
November 14, 1960
White mobs hurl slurs and threats at six-year-old Ruby Bridges as she integrates William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana.
November 13, 1830
In response to abolitionist tract Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, North Carolina lawmakers this week ban anti-slavery materials and prohibit teaching slaves to read or write.
November 12, 1866
Texas legislature authorizes leasing of state prisoners to build railroads and work on other projects, to profit the state treasury.
November 11, 1831
Nat Turner, the Black leader of an anti-slavery revolt, is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia.