Selections from the Equal Justice Initiative History of Racial Injustice calendar. I’ve chosen historical items from after 1900.
Nov 2, 2004
Alabama voters reject constitutional amendment that would remove from state constitution a provision requiring separate schools for “white and colored children".
Yes, you read that year correctly. In the 21st Century, voters could not and would not remove that provision. Read here about the ongoing attempt to change the Alabama Constitution.
Nov 5, 2010
Police officer Johannes Mehserle is sentenced to two years for fatally shooting Black 22-year-old Oscar Grant III in the back while he was facedown on a train platform in Oakland, California.
Nov 7, 1931
Fisk University dean and student die from injuries sustained in a car accident after segregated Georgia hospital refuses to treat them.
Nov 12, 1935
A mob of at least 700 white men and women lynches two Black boys, 15-year-old Ernest Collins and 16-year-old Benny Mitchell, in Colorado County, Texas.
And you can read at this link about the dog-whistle statement about lynching expressed in 2021 by a US Congressman from Texas.
Nov 16, 2015
Despite public outrage over a Texas history textbook that depicted enslaved people as “workers from Africa,” state lawmakers this week reject proposal to require that textbooks be fact-checked.
Nov 18, 1983
Chicago police beat, electrocute, and threaten to castrate James Cody, one of more than 100 Black men the department systematically tortured over three decades.
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On a side note, I'm teaching MORE AND MORE of the things Certain Groups Prefer I Never Teach About ... And the kids are listening, receptive, curious and processing.
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