Selections from the Equal Justice Initiative History of Racial Injustice calendar. I’ve chosen historical items from after 1900.
Dec 10, 2009
Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, police officers face federal charges for covering up murder of Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez by white teens spewing racial slurs.
Article from several years later in 2012.
Dec 13, 1918
U.S. government declares Indian Sikh man born in Punjab ineligible for U.S. citizenship because he is not a “free white man”; U.S. Supreme Court later affirms in U.S. v. Third.
Dec 16, 1945
Days after a Black family refuses to leave their white Fontana, California neighborhood, an explosion destroys their home and kills all four family members.
Dec 25, 1956
Civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth survives Ku Klux Klan bombing of his Birmingham, Alabama, home - the first of five attempts on his life over the next seven years.
Dec 28, 1956
Rosa Jordan, a pregnant African American resident of Montgomery, Alabama, is shot in both legs while riding a desegregated bus after the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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