Author: Desto22

Alabama Supreme Court this week upholds civil rights activist Mary Hamilton’s contempt conviction for not responding to prosecutor who used her first name but called white people “Mrs.” or “Mr.”

Virginia Assembly enacts a law this week declaring that enslaved Africans who convert to Christianity will not be freed from bondage.

White jurors in Mississippi acquit Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam in Emmit Till’s murder.

After newspapers in Atlanta, Georgia, report four alleged assaults on white women, 10,000 white men terrorize city’s Black community for four days, killing between 25-40 people.

Georgia executes Troy Davis despite strong evidence of innocence, recanted witness statements, and a global campaign demanding that the state commute his sentence.

Up to 15,000 people in Jena, Louisiana, protest the attempted murder prosecution of six Black teens for fighting with white students who hung a noose from a tree on their high school campus.

In an era when nearly all Southern colleges and training schools bar Black students, Booker T. Washington’s new school in Tuskegee, Alabama, holds its first classes in a mission to educate Black students.

Mayor of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, threatens violence against African Americans and Mexican Americans if they refuse to leave town.

Virginia Assembly sentences Hugh Davis, a white man, to be “soundly whipped” before an assembly of Black people for engaging in a relationship with a Black woman.

Okeechobee Hurricane kills 2500 people in South Florida, mostly Black migrant farmworkers; over 600 Black victims are buried in segregated mass graves with no memorial.