Today In White History
99.19 1868 Black lawmakers and their supporters marching to a political rally in Camilla, GA, are attacked and killed by a group of angry whites in what became known as the Camilla Massacre.
9.18 1850 Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act, forcing citizens to cooperate in capturing and returning enslaved people to their enslavers even if they were living in a free state.
9.17 1630 The VA assembly sentences a white man to be whipped for being in a relationship with a Black person.
9.16 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane in South Florida kills 2,500 people, mostly Black migrant farm workers more than 600 Black victims are buries in segregated mass graves with no memorial
9.15 1963 White segregationists bomb the 16th Street Baptist church a frequent meeting place for civil rights activists in Birmingham and kill four young Black girls attending Sunday school
9.14 1874 A white supremacist militia attacks New Orleans and overthrows Louisiana’s elected integrated state government in what becomes known as the Battle of Liberty Place.
9.13 1907 The annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Michigan votes against ordaining Black bishops.
9.12 1966 White mobs attack African American students who are attempting to integrate schools in Grenda, MS
9.11 1895 SC convenes a state constitutional convention with the explicit purpose of disenfranchizing Black Americans
9.10 1962 A Black family is attacked by a mob of white people in Ruleville, MS. after helping Black people to vote
9.09 1957 Mobs of white church members led by a local minister protest the integration of a white elementary school by 19 Black six-year-olds in Nashville; the school is bombed the next morning
9.08 1910 Texas House of Representatives approves a resolution instructing the state's congressional delegates to repeal the Fourteenth Amendment.
9.07 1963 Local merchants in Plaquemines Parish, LA, start enforcing an ordinance that denies service to all members of the US military regardless of race to protest integration of the armed services
9.06 1913 Eight Black men die of asphyxiation after authorities at a prison farm in Richmond TX confines 12 Black men to an underground cell as punishment for not picking cotton fast enough.
9.05 1912 Robert Johnson, a Black man, is lynched in front of a crowd of 5,000 white people in Princeton, Virginia.
9.04 1875 White mob attacks and murder dozens of Black citizens in Clinton, MS, in a riot that lasts for several days and becomes known as the Clinton Massacre
9.03 1901 AL adopts a racist constitution that seeks to legalize white supremacy, prohibits interracial marriage and segregates schools for Black and white children
9.02 1885 White miners kill 28 Chinese workers in Rock Springs, Wyoming, causing hundreds to flee, sparking anti-Chinese violence across the West
9.01 1884 superintendent denies Mamie Tape, a Chinese American child, admission to public schools in San Francisco stating that Chinese Americans are dangerous to the well-being of the state
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8.29 1961 Bob Moses is beaten while helping to register voters; he becomes the first Black person to file charges against a white person for violence in Amite County, MS, but his attacker is later acquitted.
8.28 1955 Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, members of the Ku Klux Klan, abduct 14-year-old Emmett Till from his great-uncle's cabin in MS and murder him
8.27 1960 Segregationists wielding bats and axe handles attack civil rights activists staging a lunch counter sit-in in Jacksonville, FL
8.26 1874 A mob of 400 masked men on horseback and armed with shotguns kidnap 16 Black men from jail in Gibson County TN and lynches them.
8.25 1956 Sticks of dynamite explode at the home of Robert Graetz, a young white minister at Trinity Lutheran Church in Montgomery. He actively supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott
8.24 1956 VA governor Thomas Stanley pledges to close public schools rather than permit any racial integration
8.23 1989 A white mob in Bensonhurst, NY, murders Yusef Hawkins a Black teenager after accusing him of visiting a white girl
8.22 1905 White people riot in Pittsburgh after Charles Miller, a Black man, enters a public restaurant
8.21 1959 AR Supreme ourt Justice Jim Johnson urges thousand at a pro-segregation rally to do what needs to be done to stop the integration of public schools
8.20 1619 A Dutch ship lands in Jamestown VA, carrying the first kidnapped Africans trafficked to colonial VA, where they were sold into slavery
8.19 1916 A mob of 200 white farmers hangs a 21-year-old Black man named Edward Lang n Navaro Counry, TX
8.18 1889 A white mob lynches a Black man named Walter Asbury in Chatham County, GA. and leaves his body hanging for a full day to terrorize the local Black community
88.17 1923 An estimated 1,000 white men nd women participate in a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony outside of Warwick, New York.
8.16 1904 A mob of unmasked white men in Marengo County AL, lynches Rufus Lesseur, a 24-year-old Black man, and leaves his body riddled with bullets.
8.15 1966 Holy Cross Church of God in Christ, a Black church that had newly opened in an all-white area of Providence, RI, was firebombed and vandalized with a racial slur
8.14 1908 After a failed lynching attempt, a mob of 5,000 white people in Springfield, ILL storms Black neighborhoods burns Black businesses, and Black residents
8.13 1955 Black veteran Lamar Smith is shot and killed om front of the Brookhaven, MS courthouse for urging Black residents to vote; no one is arrested despite numerous witnesses.
8.12 1903 After failing to lynch a Black man, white mobs in Whitesboro, TX violently terrorize local Blck residence and force them to flee
8.11 2017 A group of white nationalists plans to try to remove a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, VA. The next day a protester drives his car into counter-protesters, injuring 19 and killing one woman
8.10 1898 After repeated threats and lynching attempts, officers allow a white mob to seize three Black men and Black woman from jail and hang them without a trial in Clarendon, AK
8.09 2014 Eight days after graduating from high school, a white police officer shot and killed Black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, sparking protests and outcry nationwide
8.08 1925 Tens of thousands of people committed to white supremacy march through the streets of Washington D.C.
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
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