Enslavement Only Partially Banned by Emancipation Proclamation

Enslavement Only Partially Banned by Emancipation Proclamation

15-Year-Old Boy Lynched in Florida for Sending Love Note

15-Year-Old Boy Lynched in Florida for Sending Love Note

Nineteen Hopi Leaders Imprisoned in Alcatraz

Nineteen Hopi Leaders Imprisoned in Alcatraz

City of Montgomery Locks Bathrooms, Plugs Water Fountains at Airport...

City of Montgomery Locks Bathrooms, Plugs Water Fountains at Airport to Avoid Integration Orders

White Mob Destroys Black Community of Rosewood, Florida

White Mob Destroys Black Community of Rosewood, Florida

Richard and Mildred Loving Convicted of Interracial Marriage and...

Richard and Mildred Loving Convicted of Interracial Marriage and Banished from Virginia

A Ship Named “Fair American” Delivers 88 Trafficked Africans into...

A Ship Named “Fair American” Delivers 88 Trafficked Africans into Charleston, South Carolina

Maryland Governor Vows to Disenfranchise Black Voters

Maryland Governor Vows to Disenfranchise Black Voters

White Mobs Riot After Integration of University of Georgia

White Mobs Riot After Integration of University of Georgia

Voting Rights Activist Vernon Dahmer Killed in Mississippi

Voting Rights Activist Vernon Dahmer Killed in Mississippi

White Mob Lynches Couple in Louisiana Because of Their Interracial...

White Mob Lynches Couple in Louisiana Because of Their Interracial Marriage

Black Man Burned Alive by White Mob in Maryville, Missouri; Black...

Black Man Burned Alive by White Mob in Maryville, Missouri; Black Residents Flee

White Mob Lynches Black Man in SC for Allegedly Knocking on White...

White Mob Lynches Black Man in SC for Allegedly Knocking on White Woman's Door

Newly Elected Governor George Wallace Calls For “Segregation...

Newly Elected Governor George Wallace Calls For “Segregation Forever!”

U.S. Supreme Court Lifts Desegregation Decree, Authorizing One-Race...

U.S. Supreme Court Lifts Desegregation Decree, Authorizing One-Race Schools in Oklahoma City

Alabama Claims Sovereignty Over Muscogee and Cherokee People; Bars...

Alabama Claims Sovereignty Over Muscogee and Cherokee People; Bars Tribal Customs and Autonomy

Alabama Legislature Bans Free Black People from Living in the State

Alabama Legislature Bans Free Black People from Living in the State

White Enslavers Receive Money for Execution of Enslaved Black People...

White Enslavers Receive Money for Execution of Enslaved Black People in North Carolina

White Mobs Attack Filipino Farmworkers in Watsonville, California

White Mobs Attack Filipino Farmworkers in Watsonville, California

White Officials Attempt to Nullify Election of First Black Senator

White Officials Attempt to Nullify Election of First Black Senator

Mississippi Senator and Segregationist James Eastland Successfully...

Mississippi Senator and Segregationist James Eastland Successfully Campaigns to Block Anti-Lynching Bill

U.S. Court of Appeals Rules Restaurants Can Bar Black People in...

U.S. Court of Appeals Rules Restaurants Can Bar Black People in Nation’s Capital

U.S. Army Massacres Over 150 Indigenous People in Montana Territory

U.S. Army Massacres Over 150 Indigenous People in Montana Territory

Black Family Lynched in Arkansas On “Suspicion” of Having $50...

Black Family Lynched in Arkansas On “Suspicion” of Having $50 Bill

Virginia Senate Unanimously Passes First Law Requiring Racial...

Virginia Senate Unanimously Passes First Law Requiring Racial Segregation

Supreme Court Upholds Plan to Close Rather than Integrate Georgia Park

Supreme Court Upholds Plan to Close Rather than Integrate Georgia Park

Police Responding to Dog Bite Kill Black Man in Birmingham, Alabama

Police Responding to Dog Bite Kill Black Man in Birmingham, Alabama

Texas Rangers Execute 15 Mexican American Men and Boys in Porvenir,...

Texas Rangers Execute 15 Mexican American Men and Boys in Porvenir, Texas

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Criminalization of Interracial Sexual...

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Criminalization of Interracial Sexual Relationships

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Home Bombed in Montgomery, Alabama

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Home Bombed in Montgomery, Alabama

Louis Allen Ambushed and Murdered for Speaking Out in Liberty,...

Louis Allen Ambushed and Murdered for Speaking Out in Liberty, Mississippi