Author: Desto22

A mob lynches four Black men in Macclenny, Florida, seizing three from the county jail and shooting the fourth dead in the woods.

In Syracuse, New York, 150 Black men from 17 states and Washington, D.C., convene to demand Black citizenship, land ownership, and equal rights and opportunities; later form the National Equal Rights League.

U.S. Supreme Court hears argument in Ozawa v. United States, and later unanimously uphold laws banning Japanese immigrants from becoming American citizens.

More than 300 activists are sent to notorious Parchman Farm prison for marching against segregation and racial terrorism in Natchez, Mississippi.

After Governor Ross Barnett orders state troopers to block the school entrance, federal marshals intervene and James Meredith becomes the first Black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.

White people massacre nearly 200 Black people in Elaine, Arkansas, after Black sharecroppers demand fair prices.

Alabama legislature bars white female nurses from treating Black male patients.

White people in Opelousas, Louisiana, attack a local white man for registering Black voters, hang 20 Black people who defend him, and riot, leaving over 200 unarmed Black people and over 30 white people dead.

Citizens of Little Rock, Arkansas, vote to close public schools rather than integrate; schools remain closed for one year.

In Warrior, Alabama, Pastor Manuel Hernandez is arrested this week under the state’s new anti-immigration law hours after a federal judge upholds the law’s key passages.