Author: Desto22

In Charleston, South Carolina, a white teen who embraced racist ideology and wanted to start a “race war” is arrested for shooting nine Black people attending Bible study at Emanuel AME Church.

President Richard Nixon declares “War on Drugs,” contributing to 700% increase in the U.S. prison population by 2007.

In California, 14 Mexican migrant workers die in a burning bus.

South Carolina electrocutes George Stinney Jr., a 90-pound Black 14 year-old boy, after he is falsely accused of rape and murder. He is the youngest person executed in 20th century America.

Three Black circus workers are accused of raping a white woman and lynched by a mob of 10,000 in Duluth, Minnesota.

EJI (Equal Justice Initiative) argues to overturn the death-in-prison sentence imposed on a 13 year old child in Mississippi.

U.S. Congress formally apologizes for its failure to pass any of the 200 anti-lynching bills introduced from 1882 to 1968.

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.

White police officers fatally shoots an unarmed Black teenager, Martin Chambers, in the back- setting off three days of riots in Tampa, Florida.

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.