Nearly 55 years after civil rights activists Harry and Harriette Moore were killed by a bomb, a renewed investigation finds four now-deceased Ku Klux Klansmen were responsible.
August 15, 1963
Nine years after Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation ruling, 32 teenagers are jailed for protesting segregated schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia.
August 14, 1908
After failed lynching attempt, a mob of 5,000 white people storms Black neighborhoods, burns Black businesses and homes, and kills Black citizens in Springfield, Illinois riots.
August 13, 1955
Black WWI veteran Lamar Smith is shot and killed in front of Brookhaven, Mississippi, courthouse for urging black residents to vote. No one is arrested despite numerous witnesses.
August 12, 2013
Federal district court rules New York Police Department’s”stop and frisk” policy is discriminatory and unconstitutional upon finding that 85% of people stopped are Black or LatinX.
August 11, 2017
White nationalists protest removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia; the next day, a protester drives a car into counter-protesters, injuring 19 and killing one woman.
August 10, 1988
More than 45 years after the internment of Japanese Americans began, the U.S. government authorizes reparations payments to surviving detainees.
August 9, 2014
Eight days after graduating from high school, Black teenager Mike Brown is shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking protests and outcry nationwide.
August 8, 2016
14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed sues the Irving, Texas, school district after he was arrested and suspended for bringing to school a homemade clock that officials claimed was a bomb.
August 7, 1930
Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith are lynched in Marion, Indiana; 16-year-old James Cameron survives the attack and later founds America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee.