Author: Desto22

Report shows one out of every 13 voting-age African Americans is disenfranchised (four times more than the non-Black citizens); Florida, Kentucky, and Virginia bar over 20% of Black residents from voting.

White mobs threaten Black residents of North Platte, Nebraska, causing 200 people to flee their homes after a Black man is accused of killing a white police officer.

Investigation by a grand jury in Hinds County, Mississippi, finds that prisoners in the state’s convict leasing system are worked to death, kept in filthy conditions, and starved.

Center of Investigative Reporting breaks the story this week that the State of California improperly sterilized nearly 150 incarcerated women between 2006 and 2010.

A half century after Congress banned importation of enslaved people, Clotilda lands in Mobile, Alabama, as the last recorded ship carrying enslaved people to dock in the United States. Africans aboard later establish Africatown.

Five days after passage of the Civil Rights Act, white men beat nine Black boys for trying to order at a whites-only lunch counter in downtown Bessemer, Alabama.

White people riot in African American neighborhood of Dublin, Georgia, and leave two people dead, during nationwide violence known as “Red Summer.”

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police shoot and kill Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old Black man, while he is pinned to the ground. Video of the shooting leads to major protests nationwide.

African American boxer Jack Johnson defeats “Great White Hope” Jim Jeffries in what is called the fight of the century; Johnson is later persecuted by government officials.

Four days of attacks on African Americans in East St. Louis, Illinois, leave 200 dead and cause 6000 Black residents to flee the city.