After allowing state laws banning interracial marriage to stand for decades, the U.S. Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia strikes down anti-miscegenation laws in 16 states.
June 11, 1967
White police officers fatally shoots an unarmed Black teenager, Martin Chambers, in the back- setting off three days of riots in Tampa, Florida.
June 10, 1954
Southern governors meeting in Richmond, Virginia vow to defy U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education decision outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
June 9, 1963
Civil Rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer and other civil right activists are arrested on false charges in Winona, Mississippi, and severely beaten by police while in jail.
June 5, 2018
UN Human Rights Office urges the US to stop separating immigrant families.
June 5, 2013
North Carolina House votes to repeal the Racial Justice Act, ending a remedy for racial bias in capital trials.
June 4, 2011
US Census reports 25.7% of African Americans and 25.4% of Hispanic Americans are living below the poverty line, compared to less than 10% of white Americans.
June 3, 1943
White workers at Packard Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan, strike to protest the promotion of black workers.
June 2, 2011
Alabama legislature passes anti-immigrant law designed to force immigrants to flee the state. Governor Robert Bentley later signs it despite language that legalizes racial profiling.
June 1, 1921
White people attack a prosperous Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and burn it to the ground during a two days of rioting that laves up to 300 people dead.