Students and faculty from Tougaloo College held a sit-in at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi.
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The first African Liberation Day drew some 60,000 demonstrators in cities across the United States and Canada, including one on the National Mall in Washington D. C.
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Ernest Green became the first African-American to graduate from Little Rock Central High School in 1958.
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Future Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Tom P. Brady delivered a racist speech called “Black Monday” in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, inspiring many white leaders to join the White Citizens’ Council.
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In eastern Oregon, in an area now known as Chinese Massacre Cove, a group of white horse thieves murdered 34 Chinese laborers in a brutal act of white supremacist violence in the Hells Canyon Massacre.
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Learn about the people’s history of Decoration Day (Memorial Day) and the Memorial Day Massacre.
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Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson sparked a city-wide boycott in Tallahassee, Florida when they were arrested for refusing to move from the whites-only seats of a segregated bus.
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Union members were beaten by Ford Motor Co. reps for distributing leaflets in the Battle of the Overpass.
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Hundreds of Pequot villagers were massacred by the Puritans in Mystic, Connecticut.
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The Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 was settled with union recognition and reinstatement for all fired workers.
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African Americans tested their right to vote and when denied, cast their own “freedom ballots,” on election day in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Nineteen children and two teachers were shot dead at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
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Earth First! activist Judi Bari’s car was blown up by a bomb in Oakland, California.
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One of many anti-literacy laws at the time, this law prohibited the establishment of schools for Black students who were not residents of Connecticut.
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Henry Dumas, a critically acclaimed author, was fatally shot by the New York Transit police.
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Nearly 400 South Asian immigrants — many of whom were Sikh — steamed into Vancouver’s harbor on the Japanese ship Komagata Maru in search of a new home, but were blocked from docking and disembarking due to racist immigration policies.
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The forcible removal of Native American tribes, known as the Trail of Tears, began.
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The United Nations proclaimed May 22 the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues.
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Thousands of Native Americans were displaced when the “Great Emigration” on the Oregon Trail began.
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