Explore This Day in History
Illinois congressman Arthur W. Mitchell was ordered to move to the Jim Crow car of the train once it entered Arkansas.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity
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Stonemasons and other construction workers protested for an eight-hour workday.
Themes: Labor
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Three hundred twenty-two inmates were killed in a fire at the Ohio State Penitentiary.
Themes: Criminal Justice & Incarceration
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The National Guard fired on striking miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado.
Themes: Labor, Organizing
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The New York Police falsed accused four African American teenagers and one Latino teenager who became known as the Central Park Five.
Themes: African American, Criminal Justice & Incarceration
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began, on the eve of Passover, when Nazi forces attempted to clear out the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to send them to concentration camps.
Themes: Wars & Related Anti-War Movements, World History/Global Studies
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26,000 high school and college students came to Washington, D.C. to demand the end of segregated schools.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Education
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One of the largest anti-war protest was held in Washington, D.C.
Themes: US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Charlotte Brown, was forcibly removed from a horse-drawn streetcar in San Francisco.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Women's History
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The federal government compensated the "owners" of enslaved people for their "loss of property." The people whose labor and families were stolen for generations were not compensated nor given any assistance for the transition to freedom.
Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Economics, Racism & Racial Identity, Slavery and Resistance
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Amidst growing opposition to the U.S. war in Vietnam, large-scale anti-war protests were held in New York, San Francisco, and many other cities.
Themes: Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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Founding of the youth-led Civil Rights Movement organization, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Democracy & Citizenship, Organizing
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77 enslaved people attempted to flee Washington, D.C. by sailing away on a schooner called the Pearl.
Themes: African American, Democracy & Citizenship, Slavery and Resistance
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When Gonzalo and Felicitas Mendez, two California farmers, sent their children to a local school, their children were told that they would have to go to a separate facility reserved for Mexican American students.
Themes: Education, Latinx
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A riot ensued after Louis Ruffin, an Army veteran, pulled out his gun to defend his family during an altercation between his father and two police officers.
Themes: African American, Racism & Racial Identity
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The KKK carried out the Colfax Massacre in response to a Republican victory in the 1872 elections.
Themes: African American, Reconstruction
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Confederate troops massacred over 500 surrendering Union soldiers, majority African American, at the Civil War Battle of Fort Pillow.
Themes: African American, Slavery and Resistance, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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The 1968 Fair Housing Act, was signed into law after years of struggle and grassroots organizing.
Themes: African American, Civil Rights Movements, Organizing
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During a Spring filled with pro-immigrant activism, on this day the largest number of people gathered in over 100 cities in the United States to protest new anti-immigrant legislation.
Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Immigration, Latinx, Organizing
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The U.S. Civil War ended when the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to U.S. General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in south-central Virginia.
Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Slavery and Resistance, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements
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