Three nuns and a lay worker were killed in El Salvador by members of the U.S.-backed National Guard.
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Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia for leading the infamous Harpers Ferry Raid.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Shaw University was established as a co-ed campus with support from private donors and the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. It is the second oldest HBCU in the South.
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Born on this day, Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress
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A Colorado Cavalry unit, on orders from Colorado’s governor and ignoring a surrender flag, brutally attacked Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. White abolitionist Silas Soule was assassinated for reporting on the event.
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During the Zong Massacre, a ship captain ordered that 54 enslaved Africans be thrown overboard and killed.
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The Palmer Raids began in November of 1919 and targeted suspected radical leftists, especially anarchists, and deported them from the United States.
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The Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association was founded with a dual mission to organize mutual aid for its members and to pass federal pension legislation that would compensate every formerly enslaved person.
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Rosa Parks attended a mass meeting about Emmett Till days before her refusal to give up her seat on the bus.
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Joseph James Ettor, Arturo Giovannitti, and Joseph Caruso were acquitted after one of the most important labor trials.
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Sean Bell was murdered by New York City police on the day before his wedding.
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Sixty people were arraigned on charges of disorderly conduct stemming from a sit-in to block CIA campus recruiting at UMass-Amherst, an act of protest of the CIA’s role in Central America.
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The murder of the Mirabal sisters — who clandestinely opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and were then brutally killed — has become an international symbol of resistance to violence against women.
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a Black abolitionist and writer, wrote to John Brown as he awaited his execution.
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The “Hollywood 10” directors, producers, and writers who refused to testify at HUAC were held in contempt of Congress.
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Between 30-60 striking Black Louisiana sugarcane workers were massacred.
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The Bogalusa Labor Massacre was an attack on interracial labor solidarity in Louisiana.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, in the case of nine-year old Chinese-American Martha Lum, her exclusion on account of race from school was justified.
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A Boston judge stopped the extradition of George Latimer, who had escaped enslavement in Virginia, and allowed him to raise funds for his own manumission.
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