Three Black circus workers are accused of raping a white woman and lynched by a mob of 10,000 in Duluth, Minnesota.
June 14, 2010
EJI (Equal Justice Initiative) argues to overturn the death-in-prison sentence imposed on a 13 year old child in Mississippi.
June 13, 2005
U.S. Congress formally apologizes for its failure to pass any of the 200 anti-lynching bills introduced from 1882 to 1968.
June 12, 1967
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.
June 11, 1967
White police officers fatally shoots an unarmed Black teenager, Martin Chambers, in the back- setting off three days of riots in Tampa, Florida.
June 10, 1954
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.
June 9, 1963
Civil Rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer and other civil right activists are arrested on false charges in Winona, Mississippi, and severely beaten by police while in jail.
June 5, 2018
UN Human Rights Office urges the US to stop separating immigrant families.
June 5, 2013
North Carolina House votes to repeal the Racial Justice Act, ending a remedy for racial bias in capital trials.
June 4, 2011
US Census reports 25.7% of African Americans and 25.4% of Hispanic Americans are living below the poverty line, compared to less than 10% of white Americans.