Author: Desto22

White segregationists bomb 16th Street Baptist Church, a popular location for civil rights meetings in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young Black girls attending Sunday school.

White supremacist militia attacks New Orleans and overthrows Louisiana’s elected, integrated state government.

Facing a lawsuit from students forced to attend boarding schools hundreds of miles from home. Alaska agrees to build local high schools in rural areas for Native American students.

White mobs attack African American students attempting to integrate schools in Grenada, Mississippi.

South Carolina convenes a constitutional convention with the explicit purpose to disenfranchise African Americans.

White students in Tuskegee, Alabama, withdraw from school after racial integration; with the help of state funds, most enroll at private Macon Academy, which is still over 90% white today.

Enslaved Africans carry out Cato’s Rebellion, the largest such revolt in colonial America; all 50 participants ultimately are killed or imprisoned.

In the midst of legal battles over Alabama’s inhumane and dangerous prison conditions, Cedric Robinson, 33, is killed at Bibb County Correctional Facility in Brent, Alabama.

Joseph Woodrow Hatchett is elected Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, becoming the first Black person elected to any statewide office in the South since Reconstruction.

Alabama prison officials ban all prisoners from reading Slavery By Another Name, a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the re-enslavement of African Americans in the 19th century.