Author: Desto22

White mob whips Black Georgia legislator Abram Colby for promoting equal rights.

“Bed quota” mandating detention of no less than 33,400 people suspected of immigration violations and creating boon for private prison companies, first appears in federal legislation.

Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 creates a 100-to-1 sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine possession that contributes to mass incarceration of African Americans.

Texas passes law providing that Black people cannot testify in court unless the defendant is Black or the crime charged was committed against the Black person.

Virginia legislature this week passes law declaring that slave masters shall not be criminally charged when they kill enslaved people who resist authority.

U.S. Justice Department files civil rights lawsuit against Meridian, Mississippi, officials for incarcerating Black and disabled children for dress code violations and talking back to teachers.

NAACP submits petition to the United Nations detailing U.S. government’s mistreatment of African Americans.

All-white jury in Holmes County, Mississippi, takes ten minutes to acquit three white men of lynching Leon McAtee, a Black man they flogged to death for stealing a saddle.

A pro-slavery white mob assaults white abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and drags him through the streets of Boston, Massachusetts.

Twenty-one people in Tallahassee, Florida, are sentenced to jail for operating a carpool in support of those boycotting the city’s segregated busses.