Two young Black girls, Minnie (14) and Mary Alice Relf (12) sue a health clinic in Montgomery, Alabama for sterilizing them without their knowledge or consent.
June 26, 2011
White teens kill James Craig Anderson, a Black man, in a hate crime in Jackson, Mississippi.
June 26, 1959
Prince Edward County, Virginia, avoids integration by closing public schools for years.
June 25, 1964
Hundreds attack anti-segregation march in St. Augustine, Florida, injuring more than 50 African-American protestors.
June 24, 2013
This week, Kimberly McCarthy becomes the 500th person executed by the state of Texas since 1972; more than half of those executed have been people of color.
June 23, 1855
Celia, a 19 year-old enslaved Black woman whose white “owner” repeatedly raped her, kills him during an attempted rape. She is later convicted and hanged.
June 22, 1961
Ten Interfaith Riders go on trial after being arrested for seeking service at a segregated airport restaurant in Tallahassee, Florida, and face $500 in fines or 30 days in jail.
June 21, 1940
Jesse Thornton, a Black man in Luverne, Alabama, is lynched for referring a to a white police officer by his name, without using “Mr.”
June 20, 1940
After NAACP members try to register to vote in Brownsville, Tennessee, a mob of white men retaliates by abducting and lynching local NAACP secretary, Elbert Williams.
June 19, 1963
NAACP field secretary and World War II veteran Medgar Evans, who was assassinated by a white supremacist, is buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors as thousands mourn.