Blanche K. Bruce became Register of the Treasury, which placed his name on all U.S. currency.
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Ona Judge escaped enslavement by U.S. President George Washington.
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Medgar Evers made a 17-minute speech on WLBT in a rare and historic exception to the white supremacist only voice on Mississippi radio and television.
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The Battle of Attu was fought between U.S. and Japanese forces, with Attu villagers taken as prisoners of war.
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Virtually every shop and factory in Chinatown was closed, with signs posted windows and on doors reading “Closed to Protest Police Brutality” to protest the beating of Peter Yew.
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In a personal essay about the longest-running, largest annual event to celebrate the legacy of Malcolm X, Charles Stephenson describes the celebration’s founding and impact of that day in history.
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Lorraine Hansberry was an author and activist who wrote “A Raisin in the Sun.”
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Political activist Yuri Kochiyama was born in San Pedro, California.
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Mary Turner, a young African American woman who was eight months pregnant, was lynched in Lowndes County, Georgia.
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Charles Sumner delivered a speech denouncing slavery and the need for Kansas to become a free state.
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Plessy v. Ferguson upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities.
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Following the acquittal of four Miami police officers in the brutal murder of Arthur McDuffie, Black residents rose up in protest at the injustice of these acquittals.
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Nine people entered the Selective Service Offices, removed and burned draft records, and were collectively arrested in protest of the Vietnam War — they became known as the Catonsville Nine.
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After decades of organizing and strategic efforts by parents, teachers, lawyers, and more — the U.S. Supreme Court issued the unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education on school segregation.
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With the help of the NAACP, local African American parents in South Carolina fought back against school segregation in a case that eventually helped to end segregation of public facilities across the nation.
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The Sedition Act of 1918 was enacted to extend the Espionage Act of 1917. It forbade the use of “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language” about the U.S. government.
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Studs Terkel was an author, activist, historian, and broadcaster.
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Kalief Browder was arrested at the age of 16 for allegedly stealing a backpack weeks before in the Bronx.
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Howard Zinn gave the commencement address at Spelman University, at the invitation of President Beverly Daniel Tatum.
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College student Phillip Lafayette Gibbs (21) and high school student James Earl Green (17) were killed by the police during an anti-war protest at Jackson State College.
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