Today In White History
8.07 1930 Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith are lynched in Marion, Indiana: 16-year-old James Cameron survives the attack and later creates the Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee
8.06 1942 Southern Railway Company adopts a policy denying dining service to Black passengers
8.05 2012 A white supremacist opens fire on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, killing six people and injuring several more before taking his own life
8.04 1964 The bodies of murdered civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman are found in a Mississippi dam two months after their disappearance
8.03 1919 White mobs terrorize a Black community on Chicago's South Side, killing dozens and destroying the homes of thousands of Black families
8.02 1900 NC voters overwhelmingly pass an amendment to disenfranchise African Americans as part of a statewide campaign to intimidate Black voters
8.01 1944 In Philadelphia, 6,000 white transit employees strike after eight Black men begin training as motormen on street cars a job that had been reserved for only white men
7.31 1963 Almost a decade after the supreme Cort struck down school segregation, the University of North Alabama denies admission to Wendell Gunn because he is Black
7.30 1866 White residents attack Black and white supporters, denying full citizenship rights for Black people, killing 35 Black and three white demonstrators during what is later called the New Orleans Massacre
7.29 1910 A mob id hundeds if white people massacred as many as 200 Black residents in the majority Black Stocum, TX, over two days, forcing hundreds to flee for their lives
7.28 1916 Police in Louisville arrested at least three people as part of an ongoing plan to aggressively enforce bans on interracial relationships
7.27 1967 A multi-day uprising in Detroit ended, leaving more than 40 people dead, most of whom were Black and killed by police
7.26 1949 Hundreds of white men hunt and lynch Ernest Thomas in Groveland FL, after Mr Thomas, 16-year-old Charles Greenland and two other Black men are falsely accused of rape
7.25 1946 A mob of 30 armed and unmasked men lynches two Black couples, George and Mae Dorsey and Roger and Dorothy Malcom, near Moore’s Ford Bridge in Walton County, GA
7.24 1972 The Washington Star exposes the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, a study conducted on Black sharecroppers in AL. by the CDC
7.23 1942 Declaring segregation a basic necessity, AL. The governor refuses a federal contract with a nondiscrimination clause.
7.22 1899 Moments before his trial is set to begin, a white mob whips Frank Embree over 100 times and hangs him in front of more than 1,00 onlookers in Fayette, MO.
7.21 1913 Thirty-five Black men burn to death while trapped inside a locked dormitory at Oakley Farm prison camp in Hinds County, MS.
7.20 1958 Three white officers at the Nashville City Workhouse beat to death Richard Lillard, a Black man, as he begged for his life; thy are later acquitted by an all-white jury
7.19 1919 After a Balck man accused of trying to rape a white woman is released, white mobs in D.C. attack Black people, killing 40 nd injuring 150 people over four days
7.18 1946 White men shot WW II veteran Maceo Snipes in the back at his home the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor County, GA.
7.17 1956 City officials in Tallahassee ordered police to arrest Black car pool drivers in an effort to undermine the Black community’s boycott of racially segregated city buses
7.16 1944 Irene Morgan, a Black woman is arrested in VA for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on an interstate Greyhound bus.
7.15 1954 U.S.Border Patrol begins “Operation Wetback” in which agents deport thousands of people to Mexico and stop “Mexican-looking” people on the street to dead identification.
7.14 1959 Black models are cut from fashion show for the American National Exhibition in Moscow after US fashion editors objected to racially integrated scenes
7.13 1929 After a Black man is accused of killing a white police officer in North Platte, Nebraska, white residents force the towns 200 Black residents to leave their homes
7.12 1898 A white mob in VA lynches John Henry Jame, ignoring the Black man’s protests of innocence and taking pieces of his clothing and his corpse as “souvenirs”
7.11 1954 White residents form the first White Citizens Council to organize and carry out massive resistance to the racial integration of public schools in Indianola, MS.
7.10 1969Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox says he would rather close all public schools in the state than comply with demands from the Justice Department to desegregate schools
7.09 1954 Weeks after Brown v Board of Education struck down segregated public schools, Alabama's Board of Education unanimously voted to maintain racial segregation in the state's public schools.
7.08 1860 Half a century after Congress banned the importation of enslaved people, the Clotilda landed in Mobile, as the last recorded ship carrying enslaved people to the U.S.
7.07 1893 Despite evidence that he is innocent, a Black man, Seay Miller, is tortured, mutilated, and lynched by 5,000 white people in Bardwell, KY
7.06 2016 Police shoot and kill a Black man, Philando Castle, during a routine traffic stop in Falcon Heights, MN, while his girlfriend and her daughter watch in fear
7.05 2016 Police in Baton Rouge, LA shoot and kill Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old Black man, while he is pinned to the ground; video of the shooting leads to major protests nationwide
7.04 1933 A white mob seizes Norris Dendy from jail in Clinton, SC. Beats him, and then dumps his body in the yard of a nearby church
7.03 1917 Four days of attacks on African Americans in East St.Louis, Illinois, leave up to 200 dead and cause 6,000 Black residents to flee the city
7.02 1822 Denmark Vesey, a Black carpenter accused of planning a revolt against enslavers in Charleston, SC, is executed; 34 others are later executed for an attempted insurrection that never happened
7.01 1965 A sheriff padlocks a Black church in Wilcox County, AL, after a local civil rights activist uses the church as a meeting place.
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