Herbert Lee, a farmer who helped voting rights activists, was murdered by a Mississippi state legislator in broad daylight.
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At fifteen years old, William Freeman was incarcerated in the Auburn State Prison, America’s original prison for profit. From the start, he challenged the system of convict leasing.
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Fourteen people removed and burned 10,000 draft cards from the Milwaukee draft board.
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The Young Lords were established in Chicago, Illinois in 1968, led by a street activist named Cha Cha Jiménez, who organized the group to fight local gentrification, police brutality, and racism.
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John Coltrane was born. Also born #tdih: Mary Church Terrell (1863), Ray Charles (1930), and Bruce Springsteen (1949).
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The “Marching Mothers” of Hillsboro sued the school district and began daily marches to desegregate elementary schools in this town in Ohio.
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Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
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Hundreds of thousands of people across 150 countries participated in protests on Sunday, September 21, 2014, collectively called “the People’s Climate March.”
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Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt were killed in Washington, D.C. by a U.S.-backed Augusto Pinochet regime car bomb.
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Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico as a major Category 4 storm.
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James Meredith attempted to register at the University of Mississippi.
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Forty African Americans, elected by communities in nine states, met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1830 to organize for improving the lives of Black people in North America. That week, they founded the National Colored Conventions movement and held its first official series of formal meetings.
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As African Americans marched peacefully in response to their expulsion from elected office, more than a dozen were massacred near Albany, Georgia.
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The U.S. Constitution was signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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One third of the students at Harrison Technical High School staged a walkout to protest the lack of African American history classes, overcrowding and poor conditions, and more.
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William Whipper published “An Address on Non-Resistance to Offensive Aggression.”
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The 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed in an act of terrorism in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Jonathan Ferrell was killed by police in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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