Today In White History
12.01 1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing togive up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery
11.29 1864 In the Sand Creek Massacre, U.S. troops attack a Cheyenne and Arapaho village in Colorado and brutally kill hundreds of people, most of whom are women and children
11.28 1933 Thousands of white people gather for the brutal lynching of Lloyd Warner, a 19-year-old Black man in St. Joseph, Missouri
11.27 1995 Criminologists predict a youth crime wave of “radically impulsive, brutally remorseless” Black male “super-predators” leading to laws that expose thousands of children to adult prosecution
11.26 1957 During a special session to pass segregation laws, Texas lawmakers voted 115-26 to pass a bill giving the governor power to immediately close any school where federal troops might be sent to enforce integration
11.25 1829 A newspaper ad seeks help locating a “runaway” Black man who was formally enslaved as a servant for white students at the University of North Carolina
11.24 1920 A mob of white people in Dewitt, GA lynches Curley McKelvey, a Black man, after mistaking him for his brother, who had been accused of a killing the previous day
11.23 2014 Tamir Rice, a Black 12-year-old, dies after being shot by police while playing with a toy gun in a park near his home in Cleveland
11.22 1865 Mississippi requires local sheriffs to round up Black orphans and sell them to white people as laborers
11.21 1927 The Supreme Court in Gong Lum vs Rice allows a Chinese American’s exclusion from a state school for white children because she can attend a “colored” school with equal facilities.
11.20 1955 A white church board in Durant MS. votes unanimously to fire the Reverand Marsh Callaway, a Presbyterian minister who defended racial integration and spoke out against the White Citizens’ Council
11.19 1946 The National Theater in Washington, D.C., bars Black patrons from attending the opening of a musical
11.18 1983 Chicago police beat, electrocute, and threaten to castrate James Cody, one of more than 100 Black men the department systematically tortured over three decades
11.17 1937 More than 1,000 white students and faculty at the University of North Carolina attend a campus event to hear the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan promote white supremacy
11.16 1900 Hundreds of white people in Limon, CO. lynch Preston John Porter Jr. a Black 15-year-old. They chained him to a railroad stake, burned him alive, and watched
11.15 1830 NC makes it illegal to distribute anti-slavery materials and mandates the death penalty for anyone who does so more than once
11.14 1960 White mobs hurl slurs and threats at six-year-old Ruby Bridges as she integrates William Frant Elementary School in New Orleans
11.13 1957 Police in Longview, TX, order four local NAACP officers to name their members or face jail; the men refuse and are arrested less than 24 hours later
11.12 1935 A mob of 700 white people lynches two Black children, 15-year-old Ernest Collins and 16-yer-old Benny Mitchell, in Colorado County, TX; officials later call the murders “justice
11.11.1831 Nat Turner, the Black leader of anti-slavery revolt, is hanged in Jerusalem, VA
11.10 1898 Armed white residents take political control in Wilmington, NC by killing dozens of Black people and forcing 2,000 Black residents to flee the majority Black city at gunpoint
11.9 1866 Texas lawmakers authorize counties to employ jail inmates in public works and to lease them to private employers, with all profits going county treasurer
11.8 1889 A young Blackman named Orion “Owen” Anderson is lynched in Leesburg, VA for allegedly frightening a white girl by wearing a sack on his head.
11.7 1931 A Fisk University Dean and a student die from injuries sustained in a car accident after a segregated hospital in Georgia refused to treat them
11.6 1947 Police in Rochester, NY, shoot Roland T. Price an unarmed Black veteran, 25 times; he dies and the shooting is alter ruled “justified”
11.5 1862 The U.S. government sentences more than 300 Dakota men after a territorial commission finds they participated in the Dakota Uprising; 38 are later executed in the country's largest mass execution death
11.4 1890 Benjamine Tillma, a white supremacist who advocated violence against Black voters and opposed education for African Americans, is selected governor of SC
11.3 1874 White men wage election-day violence against Black voters in Eufaula, AL. killing seven and injuring dozens more
11.2 1920 On Election Day, white residents in Ocoee, FL, launched a two-day campaign of terror and violence to stop Black citizens from voting, killing dozens of Black people and destroying Black homes and churches
11.1 1879 The Federal government opened a school in PA to force indigenous children to assimilate.
________________________________________
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.
________________________________________