A young Black man named Orion “Owen” Anderson is lynched in Leesburg, Virginia, for frightening a white girl by wearing a sack on his head.
November 7, 1931
Fisk University dean and student die from injuries sustained in a car accident after segregated Georgia hospital refuses to treat them.
November 6, 1909
Colored Alabamian reports that a Black wagon driver in Montgomery, Alabama, was shot dead because he did not “drive as far to the right as a white man thought he should.”
November 5, 2010
Police officer Johannes Mehserle is sentenced to two years for fatally shooting Black 22 year-old Oscar Grant III in the back while he was facedown on an Oakland, California train platform.
November 4, 1890
Benjamin Tillman, a white supremacist who advocated violence against Black voters and opposed education for African Americans, is elected governor of South Carolina.
November 3, 2000
Alabama repeals 1901 state constitutional ban on interracial marriage, although a majority of white voters favors keeping the ban.
November 2, 2004
Alabama voters reject constitutional amendment that would remove from state constitution a provision requiring separate schools for “white and colored children.”
November 1, 1879
U.S. opens Pennsylvania school to force Native American children to assimilate.
November 1, 1831
Choctaw Nation begins march from Mississippi to Oklahoma; 1 in 3 die in “Trail of Tears.”
October 31, 1901
A white mob hangs and shoots to death Silas Esters, a Black man, in front of the LaRue County, Kentucky, courthouse.