Twenty-one teachers at the Elloree Training School were fired when they refused to sign an oath denying membership in the NAACP.
Continue reading
After posting a racist manifesto online before targeting a majority-Black neighborhood, a white supremacist killed ten people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.
Continue reading
Peaceful protesters formed a picket line at the House on Un-American Activities Committee hearings.
Continue reading
More than four thousand Philadelphia longshoremen, organized by African American IWW leader Ben Fletcher, went on strike and shut down one of the busiest ports in the United States.
Continue reading
Amid overwhelming criticism that Scholastic Inc. was lying to students about the benefits of coal use, the education publisher cut ties with the coal industry.
Continue reading
The Philadelphia Police Department dropped a C-4 bomb on the home of the MOVE organization, killing eleven people (including five children) and wiping out half a city block.
Continue reading
The U.S. Congress overwhelmingly voted in favor of President James K. Polk’s request to declare war on Mexico.
Continue reading
Mother’s Day began as a call to action for healthcare and against war. Activism continues today with #FreeBlackMamas and more.
Continue reading
The Poor People’s Campaign was a multiracial effort to gain economic justice for poor people.
Continue reading
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled in favor of school desegregation in the case of Joseph Workman v. the Detroit Board of Education, almost 90 years before the United States’ landmark Brown v. Board of Education.
Continue reading
Judge Byrne dismissed all charges against Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the Pentagon Papers trial.
Continue reading
Army Captain Howard Levy was imprisoned for three years for refusing to train U.S. Special Forces soldiers during the Vietnam War.
Continue reading
White sailors ignited violent rioting in Charleston, South Carolina during the Red Summer of 1919. African Americans fought back, in self-defense.
Continue reading
Lee Yick won a Supreme Court case that said that all people — citizens and non-citizens alike — had equal protection under the law.
Continue reading
Passed in response to the Stono Rebellion, this law made it illegal to teach enslaved people to read or write, aiming to prevent further insurrections.
Continue reading
Teachers went on strike for seven months, against community control, after Black and Puerto Rican parents organized for better schools for their children in New York City.
Continue reading
Helen Keller wrote a letter to the students who planned on burning all books deemed “un-German.”
Continue reading
Starting in the spring of 1934, longshoremen across every port on the West Coast struck against the unfair hiring tactics that they experienced daily.
Continue reading
Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop were close-knit Mexican American communities that were destroyed in the 1950s to make way for Dodger Stadium.
Continue reading