This Day in History - Zinn Education Project

April 21, 1937: Congressman Ordered to Jim Crow Section of Train

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

Three hundred twenty-two inmates were killed in a fire at the Ohio State Penitentiary.

Themes: Criminal Justice & Incarceration

Stonemasons and other construction workers protested for an eight-hour workday.

Themes: Labor