Author: Desto22

Mobs of white segregationists blocked Mansfield High School to prevent Black children from registering.

Hurricane Katrina devastates the U.S. Gulf Coast; the subsequent disaster response is criticized for mistreating many severely impacted Black citizens.

Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, white members of the Klu Klux Klan,abduct 14-year-old Emmett Till from his great-uncle’s cabin in Mississippi and murder him.

Segregationists wielding bats and axe handles attack civil rights activists staging a lunch counter sit-in in Jacksonville, Florida.

Mob of 400 masked men on horseback and armed with shotguns kidnaps 16 Black men from jail in Gibson County Tennessee, and lynches them.

Montgomery, Alabama, home of Robert Graetz, white minister of Trinity Lutheran Church and Montgomery Improvement Association board member, is bombed.

White men in Jacksonville, Florida, lynch Black farmhand Ben Hart for allegedly peeping into a white woman’s room; he is later exonerated.

White mob in Bensonhurst, New York, murders Blacks teenager Yusef Hawkins for visiting a white girl.

White people riot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after Charles Miller, a Black man, enters a public restaurant.

Nat Turner leads 60 enslaved Black people in Southampton, Virginia, rebellion that leaves 55 white people dead. Turner and dozens of other Black participants are later executed.