#BLM OTD 1863 Charlotte L. Brown, a Black woman in San Francisco refused to leave a whites-only streetcar.
The conductor threw her off. She sued Omnibus Railroad & won.
Then she got thrown off again, sued again & won again.
This was 92 years before Rosa Parks.
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#BLM 1862 President Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, officially ending slavery in D.C. This act freed over 3,000 enslaved people 9 months before the Emancipation Proclamation & is celebrated annually as DC Emancipation Day.
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#BLM OTD 1947 Jackie Robinson, 28, becomes the 1st Black player in Major League Baseball's modern era when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for over 50 years.
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Harriet Tubman
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#BLM OTD 1853 Harriet Tubman made her first of 19 courageous trips back to the South, leading enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad. She personally guided 70 people (family & friends) out of Maryland & provided instructions to 50–60 more.
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#BLM OTD 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, a white mob attacked the Grant Parish courthouse, which was held by Black freedmen & state militia protecting the results of a disputed gubernatorial election. 60 to 150 Black citizens were killed. Only 3 white men died.
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#BLM OTD 1866 Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the 1st US federal law defining US citizenship & affirming equal rights for all persons born in the US, regardless of race or previous condition of servitude.
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#BLM OTD 1975 Frank Robinson made history as Major League Baseball's first Black manager, leading the Cleveland Indians to a win over the New York Yankees. Serving as player-manager, he famously hit a HR in his first at-bat, highlighting a landmark debut.
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#BLM OTD 1940 Booker T. Washington becomes the 1st African-American to be honored on a US stamp. A prominent educator, he founded Alabama's Tuskegee Normal Industrial School, (renamed Tuskegee Institute.) He was born enslaved April 5, 1856 & died Nov. 14, 1915.
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#BLM OTD 1931 trials began for 9 Black teens accused of rape in Alabama. The arrest, trials and conviction of the Scottsboro Boys became one of the most notable events highlighting racism and the impact of all-white juries in cases involving Black defendants.
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#BLM OTD 1968 MLK, Jr. gave his prophetic "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in Memphis, Tennessee one day before his assassination. He spoke in support of striking sanitation workers, stating he had "seen the Promised Land" and might not reach it with them.
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#BLM OTD 1990 chemist Percy Julian was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for work in soybean chemistry. He developed ways to mass-produce steroid hormones, including cortisone for arthritis. He secured 130+ patents despite racial discrimination.
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#BLM 1965 the civil rights suit of Blackwell v. Issaquena Board of Ed was filed for 300 Black students from schools in Issaquena County, Mississippi. Students were suspended for wearing & distributing “freedom” buttons after school administrators banned them.
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#BLM OTD 1914 a mob in Wagoner County, OK dragged 17-year-old Black girl Marie Scott from jail & hanged her from a telephone pole. She was accused of being involved in the killing of Lemuel Pierce while he & other white men were in the city's "colored section."
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#BLM OTD 1870 The U.S. Constitution's 15th Amendment was officially ratified, granting African American men the right to vote. It declared that voting rights could not be denied based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
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#BLM OTD 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi 9 Tougaloo College students & members of the NAACP's local Youth Council held a sit-in protesting Jackson Public Library's segregation. Black people were prohibited from using Jackson's main library due to Jim Crow laws.
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#BLM OTD 1964 MLK, Jr. & Malcolm X met this one & only time, briefly shaking hands at the US Capitol while attending a Senate hearing on the Civil Rights Act. The short encounter between the two pitted Black leaders showcased unity in the struggle for equality.
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#BLM OTD 1965 the conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery march. MLK, Jr. led 25,000 civil rights marchers to the Alabama state capitol to demand voting rights. Following the march, Viola Liuzzo, a white activist, was murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen.
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#BLM OTD 1940 Pauli Murray & Adelene McBean - young Black friends - were arrested on a bus near Petersburg, VA for not moving to the back. Jim Crow laws in VA at the time required segregated seating on public transport. Murray & McBean were arrested & jailed.
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#BLM OTD 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom's Cabin was published, instantly becoming a best-seller that intensified the US anti-slavery movement. It sold 300,000+ copies in its 1st year & was the 2nd best-selling book of the 19th century after the Bible.
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#BLM OTD 1966 TX Western beat top-ranked Kentucky to win the NCAA men’s basketball championship. Coached by Don Haskins, the Miners were the 1st team with an all-Black starting 5 to win the title, marking a pivotal, barrier-breaking moment in college sports.
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#BLM OTD 1933 in Lula, Mississippi, Unita Blackwel was born. She was a pivotal civil rights activist & politician who became the 1st Black woman elected mayor in Mississippi. Elected mayor of Mayersville in 1976, she served until 1993.
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#BLM OTD 1886 23 Black people were killed when a white mob stormed the courthouse in Carroll County, Mississippi & opened fire. The victims were in court following accusations against a white man for the assault of brothers, Ed & Charley Brown, who were Black.
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#BLM OTD 1827 the 1st Black newspaper,
Freedom's Journa,l was founded by John B. Russwurm & Samuel Cornish, in NYC, to counter racist attacks and advocate for abolition. At its zenith, it circulated in 11 states, DC, Haiti, Europe & Canada.
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#BLM OTD 2020 Breonna Taylor, a Black EMT, was killed by Louisville, Kentucky, police officers as they burst into her apartment during a botched raid; her death led to massive protests by Black Lives Matter activists and others who called for police reform.
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The first Black Girl Scouts Troop!

#BLM OTD 1917 the 1st Black Girl Scouts Troop was formed (in New York City.) Well before the civil rights movement, the Girl Scouts place in the desegregation movement was solidified. In 1956, MLK Jr. described the Girl Scouts as "a force for desegregation."
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#BLM OTD 1959 A Raisin in the Sun, the 1st Broadway play produced by a Black woman, Lorraine Hansberry, debuted. Starring Sidney Poitier & Claudia McNeil the play, influenced by the Langston Hughes poem "Harlem," is about a struggling Black family in Chicago.
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Text of the Streetcar Segregation Act

#BLM OTD 1903 Black leaders in Little Rock, Arkansas initiated an organized protest against the Streetcar Segregation. The assembly at the First Baptist Church was a direct response to legislative efforts to implement "separate but equal" seating on streetcars.
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#BLM OTD 1965 "Turnaround Tuesday. MLK led 1,500 civil rights marchers to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama 2 days after the brutal "Bloody Sunday" attacks. Confronted again by state troopers, King, to avoid violence, turned the march around.
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