Today In White History
10.20 1669 Lawmakers in Colonial VA enact a law that authorizes “owners” to kill their rebellious slaves
10.19 1960 Dr. Martin Luther King joins a sit-in protest in a downtown Atlanta department store and is arrested with 51 others for trying to desegregate the city’s stores and restaurants
10.18 1933 A mob of 2,000 in Princess Anne, MD takes George Armwood from jail, beats him, hangs him, drags his body through the streets, and then hangs and burns his corpse.
10.17 1938 White people in Smyrna, GA riot for days stoning and beating Black people and burning a Black school, after a Blackman is arrested and accused of killing a white farmer and his daughter
10.16 1968 U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise black-gloved fists on the medal stand at the Olympics in Mexico to protest racial inequality in the U.S.; they receive death threats for years after returning home
10.15 1883 The Supreme Court facilitates the expansion of Jim Crow laws in the South by striking down the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which banned discrimination in public places
10.14 1835 Four residents of Wheeling, West Virginia, are criminally prosecuted for teaching literacy to Black people
10.13 1920 Following the lynching of an innocent Black man in Roxboro, NC, white mobs terrorize Black residents, forcing them to leave town
10.12 1995 Five police officers in Pittsburg kill Black motorist, Jonny Gammage, during a routine traffic stop by pinning him face down on the pavement until he asphyxiates
10.11 1921 Police in TX shoot and kill David Bunn, a handcuffed Black man, as he flees a white lynch mob
10.10 1871 Activist Octavious Catto abd two other Black men are killed after voting in Philadelphia
10.10 1933 CA cotton growers, trying to break a strike, kill a Mexican diplomat and two farm workers
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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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