Today In White History
5.02 1963 More than 700 Black children protesting racial segregation in Birmingham are arrested, blasted with fire hoses, clubbed by police, and attacked by police dogs.
5.01 1863 During the Civil War, the Confederate Congress declares Black Union soldiers as criminals and authorizes their enslavement or execution
4.30 1866 White police in Memphis attack Black soldiers, triggering a wave of violence by white police and mobs who kill nearly 50 Black people, rape at least five Black women, and burn 100 Black homes and businesses.
4.29 1992 in Los Angeles, an all-white jury acquits the officers who violently beat Rodney King, a young Black man, sparking an uprising in which more than 50 people die and over 2,000 are injured.
4.28 1936 A mob of 40 white men in Colbert, GA. seizes Lincy Shaw, a Black farmer, from police custody and shoots him hours before his trial on allegations of attempting to assault two white women
4.27 1899 Black community leader Mitchell Daniel is lynched in GA for talking too much about the recent lynching of another Black man, Sam Hose.
4.26 1862 CA lawmakers ratify a new law to protect white labor against competition with Chinese Coolie labor and to discourage the immigration of Chinese into the state
4.25 1959 A white mob beats, shoots and throws the chained body of Mack Charles Parker, a Black man, into the Pearl River after hr us accused of raping a white woman in Poplarville, MS
4.24 1877 Federal troops withdraw from Louisiana state house, marking the end of Reconstruction
4.23 1963 During a one-man civil rights march to Jackson, MS a white activist named William L Moore us found dead from a gunshot to the had on U.S. Highway 11 near Attalia, AL
4.22 1987 The Supreme Court upholds the death penalty in McCleskey v. Kemp despite proof that it is racially biased, reasoning that racial discrimination in the criminal justice system is “inevitable.”
4.21 2007 White parents in Turner County, GA. protest a high school’s decision to hold its first integrated prom; previously, parents organized private, racially segregated proms for students
4.20 1965 Georgia business owner Lester Maddax threatens three Black seminary students at gunpoint for trying to eat in his segregated restaurant; he is acquitted of all charges and later elected governor
4.19 1989 Five Black and Latino teenagers are arrested for raping a jogger in NYC Central Park and are incarcerated for years before being exonerated
4.18 1846 New Jersey enacts a law to bind enslaved Black people to indefinite servitude as “apprentices for life” who cannot leave their jobs without written permission from their masters or mistresses
4.17 1915 A white Georgia mob lynches Caesar Sheffield, a Black man. After, he is accused of stealing meat
4.16 1945 At a tryout for Black ballplayers from the Negro leagues, Boston Red Sox fans verbally abuse Black players, including Jackie Robinson and Red Sox managers send them home without a contract
4.15 1903 Several thousand white people in Joplin, MO. Lynch a Black man named Thomas Gilyard and attack Black neighborhoods, burning homes, shooting Black people and forcing every Black resident to flee the city
4.14 1906 On the town square in Springfield, MO., a white lynch mob hangs and shoots to death Fred Coker and Horace Duncan, two Black men, before thousands of spectators
4.13 1873 A armed white mob kills 150 Black people following a contested election in Colfax, LA
4.12 1963 Commissioner of Public Safety, Eugene “Bull” Connor, orders the violent arrests of MLK and dozens of civil rights activists in Birmingham.
4.11 1913 President Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet implemented a government-wide segregation policy in workplaces, restrooms, and luncheons
4.10 1956 Four white men attack Black singer Nat King Cole while he is performing for an all-white audience in Birmingham
4.09 1939 Banned from every indoor venue in DC due to her race, Black opera singer Marian Anderson performs for 75,000 people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
4.08 1911 Banner Mine near Birmingham explodes, killing 128 people, nearly all of whom are Black men leased to the Pratt Consolidation Coal Company as convict laborers
4.07 1927The KKK kicks off a 10-day series of revival events at a white Presbyterian church in Evergreen, Alabama and recruits 600 new members
4.06 1892 A mob of 80 white men seizes Isaac Brandon from a Virginia jail and lynches him on the courthouse lawn while his young son pleads for his life
4.05 1955 Mississippi governor signs law that white students who attend sate sponsored schools with Black students may be fined or sentenced to up to six months in jail
4.04 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King is assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis
4.03 1911 President William Taft expels an all-Black calvary unit from San Antonio for protesting racial segregation.
4.02 1963 Segregationists Bull Connor refuses to concede after losing the mayoral election in Birmingham, sparking weeks of civil rights protests
4.01 1807 Ohio enacts a law banning Black witnesses from testifying in court against white people
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The enemy sometimes comes with a rope, a badge, a suit, or a lie. But the story stays the same. Today, it’s not just Black skin—it’s a turban, a hijab, a name, or a language that sounds foreign.
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