On this day in 1911, a mine explosion near Birmingham, Alabama, killed 128 miners—nearly all were Black men forced to work as leased convicts.
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On this day in 1927, the Ku Klux Klan held a "revival" at a white Presbyterian church in Evergreen, Alabama, urging community members to join their efforts to uphold white supremacy.
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On this day in 1892, a white mob in Virginia broke into a jail, removed a Black man from his cell as his small son pleaded with the mob, and lynched him on the courthouse lawn.
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On this day in 1955, less than a year after the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional, Mississippi made it a criminal offense for white students to attend a public school with Black students.
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On this day in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis. Dr. King was there supporting an economic protest by Black sanitation workers.
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For the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation, Bryan Stevenson curated an exhibition by the incomparable photographer Gordon Parks. The images of Parks's he selected convey the "struggle, resilience, and constant striving of Black Americans."
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On this day in 1911, President William Howard Taft expelled Black soldiers from San Antonio because local officials claimed they threatened “law and order” by protesting Jim Crow laws.
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On this day in 1963, segregationist Bull Connor refused to leave office after losing the mayoral election in Birmingham, Alabama. He then ordered the violent suppression of peaceful civil rights protests taking place in the city.
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EJI's dedication of Montgomery Square ended with a freedom song, led by Jeanette Howard-Moore, Viola Bradford, Margaret Howard, and Bryan Stevenson, along with the choir from Booker T. Washington Magnet High School.
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In the early 1800s, thousands of Black Americans traveled to Ohio to escape enslavement in the South. From 1800-1810, Ohio's Black population grew from a little over 300 to nearly 1,900. Ohio’s all-white state legislature began passing targeted measures to stop Black people from moving to the state.
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The laws barred Black people from testifying in court against white people, demanded that Black people produce proof of freedom “on demand,” and required new Black citizens to obtain sponsorship from two white residents within 20 days of moving to the state.
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Ohio’s “Black Laws”—measures passed in the early 1800s to curtail Black immigration—codified white supremacy in the state. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m6K...
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Today, EJI hosted the dedication of our newest site, Montgomery Square. We were thrilled to be joined by civil rights leaders, Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed, BTW high school choir, and Grammy award-winning gospel artist Le'Andria Johnson.
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On this day in 1914, a white lynch mob in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, seized a Black teenage girl named Marie Scott from the local jail, dragged her screaming from her cell, and hanged her from a nearby telephone pole.
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On this day in 1961, a Mississippi agency voted to continue using state funds for pro-segregation campaigns organized by White Citizens’ Councils.
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On this day in 1964, segregated white churches in Jackson, Mississippi, barred two interracial groups from entering Easter Sunday services. Nine men were arrested and convicted of disturbing public worship.
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“If people do not know their history, they are liable to repeat it." Bryan Stevenson on the importance of facing our past honestly, the power of hope, and the opportunities that emerge when you stand with condemned and disfavored people. @edwardluce.bsky.social @ftweekend.com
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On this day in 1958, the State of Alabama executed a 22-year-old Black man named Jeremiah Reeves after police tortured him into giving a false confession as a 16-year-old child.
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On this day in 1908, an Alabama congressman shot a Black man for cursing in front of a white woman on a street car in Washington, D.C. His fellow representatives praised his actions.
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On March 12, dozens of community members gathered outside the old courthouse in the center of Fayetteville, Georgia, to dedicate a historical marker recognizing at least seven victims of racial terror lynching in Fayette County.
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On this day in 1944, six white men in Amite County, Mississippi, lynched the Rev. Isaac Simmons, a Black minister and farmer, so they could steal his family’s land. His family then fled, fearing for their lives.
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On this day in 1931, nine Black teenagers were arrested and falsely accused of raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. They spent 6-17 years in prison despite evidence that exonerated them.
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On this day in 1942, the United States evicted Japanese Americans from their homes in Washington and forced them into internment camps.
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On this day in 1875, three weeks after the federal Civil Rights Act was enacted to guarantee equal treatment, the Tennessee legislature approved a bill permitting racial discrimination in public spaces.
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On this day in 1901, police arrested a white woman and a Black man after they were accused of walking and talking together on a public street in Atlanta.
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On this day in 1981, two members of the United Klans of America beat, strangled, hanged, and slashed the throat of a 19-year-old Black teenager named Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama.
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