Today In White History

02.06 1902 A mob of 200 white people seizes a 19-year-old Black man, Thomas Brown, from jail and lyncheshim on the courthouse lawn after he is accused of assault in Nicholasville, KY

02.05 1917 Congress passes the immigration Act of 1917 to bar entry of Asian, Mexican, and Mediterranean people, poor people, and those with mental or physical disabilities  or criminal records

02.04 1846 Alabama launches convict leasing by leasing Wetumpka State Penitentiary and its inmates to a private businessman.

02.03 1948 Rosa Lee Ingram and her two teenage sons are sentenced to die in Georgia for killing an armed white man who assaulted them

02.02 1909 Pittsburgh police arrest more than 200 Black men on charges of vagrancy and sentence many of them the next day to forced labor at the city workhouse

02.01 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King and more than 200 others are arrested, and after a voting rights march in Selma, AL.

01.31 1964 Louis Allen, a witness to the murder of an NAACP activist by a white state legislator, is killed in Mississippi.

01.30 1956 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s house in Montgomery is bombed while he speaks at a mass meeting; Dr. King latter addresses the angry crowd and pleads for nonviolence

01.29 1883 In Pace v. Alabama, the Supreme Court upholds a law that criminalizes interracial marriage and sex.

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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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