August 10 is recognized internationally as Prisoners’ Justice Day (PJD), a day of solidarity and organizing with the incarcerated, and remembrance of those who died behind bars, living in inhumane conditions.
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Nearly 500 white men destroyed the integrated Noyes Academy in Canaan, New Hampshire.
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Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Nine Black activists were arrested in London, England and charged with inciting a riot when they led over 150 protestors in a march against police harassment.
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The Freedom Schools Convention was held in Meridian, Mississippi
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed without a single dissent in the House of Representatives, and only two no votes in the Senate, leading to increased U.S. aggression in Vietnam.
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The MFDP held a State Convention with 2,500 people in Jackson, Mississippi.
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The United States dropped an atomic bomb for the first time in war over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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On election day, in Louisville, Kentucky, Protestant mobs attacked German and Irish Catholic neighborhoods.
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A white supremacist shot and killed six members of the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
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White workers murdered Black workers in Arkansas who were coming to work on the railways.
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The bodies of three lynched civil rights workers (James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman) were found in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
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The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) declared a strike.
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Reagan appealed to the “George Wallace-inclined voters” and to white supremacy in his stump speech at the Neshoba County Fair, mere miles away from where three civil rights workers were murdered by the Klan in 1964.
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J. C. Farmer, a 19-year-old African American WWII veteran, was killed by a mob of 20 white men.
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The first “Redeemer” government is established in Tennessee after conservatives gain control of the state’s General Assembly, ushering in an era of Jim Crow segregation laws.
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Sarah Keys refused to give up her seat on a state-to-state charter bus, prompting the landmark court case, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company.
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IWW labor organizer Frank Little was lynched from a railroad trestle.
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