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, AL. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

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. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

On this day in 1956, white men attacked Nat King Cole during a segregated performance in Birmingham, Alabama. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

On this day in 1939, world-renowned Black opera singer Marian Anderson was denied the use of indoor halls due to her race and performed outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

A district attorney who sought the death penalty in several cases is now working to take 14 people off of California’s death row. His visit to EJI’s Legacy Sites, he told the Los Angeles Times, is what transformed his view of capital punishment. latimes.com/california/sto…

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. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

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. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

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. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

On this day in 1880, three white cadets brutally assaulted Cadet Johnson C. Whittaker, one of the first Black students to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

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. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

On this day in 1911, President William Howard Taft expelled Black soldiers from San Antonio, Texas, because local officials claimed they threatened “law and order” by protesting Jim Crow laws. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

'If there is something unique about Alabama that puts all our inmates beyond hope for reform, then we as a state must be doing something wrong.' AL.com al.com/news/2024/03/a…

On this day in 1802, Georgia ceded its western territory, leading to the creation of two 'slave states' where hundreds of thousands of Black people would become enslaved. This further entrenched the power of the 'slave states' in the U.S. Congress. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

On this day in 1914, a white lynch mob in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, seized a 17-year-old Black girl named Marie Scott from the local jail and hanged her from a nearby telephone pole. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…