Mob of 400 masked men on horseback and armed with shotguns kidnaps 16 Black men from jail in Gibson County Tennessee, and lynches them.
August 25, 1956
Montgomery, Alabama, home of Robert Graetz, white minister of Trinity Lutheran Church and Montgomery Improvement Association board member, is bombed.
August 24, 1923
White men in Jacksonville, Florida, lynch Black farmhand Ben Hart for allegedly peeping into a white woman’s room; he is later exonerated.
August 23, 1989
White mob in Bensonhurst, New York, murders Blacks teenager Yusef Hawkins for visiting a white girl.
August 22, 1905
White people riot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after Charles Miller, a Black man, enters a public restaurant.
August 21, 1831
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.
August 20, 1619
Dutch ship lands in Jamestown, Virginia, carrying the first enslaved people to what would become the United States.
August 19, 2016
St. Anthony, Minnesota, police office Jeronimo Yanez returns to duty this week before completion of the investigation into his fatal shooting of Philandro Castile weeks earlier.
August 18, 1995
NAACP protests National Parks Service’s decision, pressured by Sons of Confederate Veterans and Senator Jesse Helms, to remove covering from “faithful slave monument” at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.
August 17, 1965
Riots in Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, sparked by white police beating of a young Black man, leave 34 dead, 1032 injured, nearly 4000 arrested, and $40 million in damages.