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On this day in 2007, a Georgia high school held its first integrated prom. White parents still held a private, "white-only" prom, and some barred their children from attending the integrated prom.
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On this day in 1965, an all-white jury acquitted future Georgia Governor Lester Maddox of all charges after he threatened three Black students at gunpoint for trying to eat in his segregated restaurant.
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This week, Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia signed a bill that ends state tax exemptions for several Confederate organizations, putting a stop to more than 75 years of state support for efforts to romanticize slavery and glorify the Confederacy.
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On this day in 1989, NYPD officers arrested five teenagers—four of whom were Black and one of whom was Latino—subjected them to coercive interrogation, and charged them with rape despite their innocence. All were sentenced to 5-13 years.
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On this day in 1846, New Jersey enacted legislation that, rather than abolishing enslavement, bound Black people to indefinite servitude as “apprentices for life” at the will of white enslavers.
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On this day in 1915, a white mob took a Black man named Caesar Sheffield from jail and shot him to death near Lake Park, Georgia, for allegedly stealing meat from a smokehouse.
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On this day in 1945, three Black baseball players including Jackie Robinson were verbally attacked during tryouts for the Boston Red Sox. The team refused to sign them and remained segregated until 1959.
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for people convicted of felony murder violate the state constitution, specifying that the statute "poses too great a risk of disproportionate punishment."
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On this day in 1903, several thousand white people lynched a Black man and attacked Black neighborhoods in Joplin, Missouri, burning homes and forcing every Black person to flee the city.
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On this day in 1906, a white mob lynched Horace Duncan and Fred Coker, then lynched Will Allen the next day. All three men were innocent of any offense.
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On this day in 1873, a mob of hundreds of armed white men attacked the Grant Parish courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana, killing an estimated 150 Black people, many of whom were trying to flee.
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On this day in 1963, Bull Connor ordered dozens of people, including Dr. King, the Rev. Shuttlesworth, and the Rev. Abernathy, to be violently arrested during an anti-segregation march in Birmingham, Alabama.
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On this day in 1913, President Woodrow Wilson authorized overt racial segregation in federal employment. Federal endorsement of Jim Crow policies was a significant blow to Black civil rights.
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On this day in 1956, white men attacked Nat King Cole during a segregated performance in Birmingham, Alabama.
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On this day in 1939, world-renowned Black opera singer Marian Anderson was denied the use of indoor halls due to her race and instead performed outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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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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Is today TACO Monday?
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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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I have only one King. He was a doctor. Some called him Martin. Those closest to him called him Mike.
58 years go today.
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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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