Equal Justice Initiative

We work to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial injustice. Led by Bryan Stevenson. Creators of the @legacysites #justmercy

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Montgomery Square is now open. Visit and learn more: https://t.co/MrjwYvFa5U

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On this day in 1961, a white man brutally beat civil rights leader Bob Moses as he accompanied Black residents of Amite County, Mississippi, to the county courthouse to register to vote.
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On this day in 1955, two white men abducted and murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.
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[The Legacy Sites @LegacySites]

Breathtaking art and original artifacts bring to life the history of the 10 million Black people who were enslaved in America. The National Monument to Freedom—displaying over 100,000 names of formerly enslaved Black people—is the heart of this space.

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On this day in 1960, hundreds of white people armed with baseball bats and ax handles attacked Black activists after they staged a peaceful sit-in at a "white-only" restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida.
https://t.co/JdRl1YBBxv

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On this day in 1874, a mob of 400 to 500 white men seized 16 Black men from the Gibson County Jail in Trenton, Tennessee, and lynched them.
https://t.co/ggH8rjxLfM

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On this day in 1956, the home of Montgomery Pastor Robert Graetz was bombed. Pastor Graetz, a white man, had been an outspoken supporter of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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On this day in 1956, the governor of Virginia pledged to withhold funding from any local government that integrated its schools, saying, "If we accept admission of one Negro child into a white school, it's all over.”
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On this day in 1989, a group of white teenagers killed a 16-year-old Black boy named Yusef Hawkins after he walked into a predominantly white neighborhood in Brooklyn to inquire about a used car.
https://t.co/tkNb45j12U

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On this day in 1905, a Black man named Charles Julius Miller was attacked by a white mob for seeking service in a Pittsburgh restaurant.
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On this day in 1959, Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson told a statewide segregationist rally to “do what needs to be done” to fight the proposed integration of schools in the state.
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On this day in 1619, traffickers brought the first enslaved Africans to a Virginia colony on the James River. They sold some enslaved people for food and sold others to white enslavers in Jamestown.
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In 2020, the Shenandoah County School Board recognized Confederate names as racially divisive and removed them from their schools, only to reinstate them in 2024. On Aug. 6, a federal court ordered the Board to once again remove the discriminatory names.

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On this day in 1916, white mobs in Florida and Texas lynched seven Black people. This terroristic violence was carried out just months before the U.S. entered World War I, in a fight to protect democracy and freedom.
https://t.co/KL4ChNghY1

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On this day in 1889, a Black man named Walter Asbury was lynched by a mob of white people in Chatham County, Georgia. His body was left hanging the entire next day to terrorize the Black community.
https://t.co/2RaFMiOgp1

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Last month, Michigan's highest court ruled that sentencing a youthful offender convicted of second-degree murder to 50 to 75 years in prison is "cruel or unusual punishment" that violates the state's constitution.
https://t.co/YLE9aQGslm

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A mob of as many as 500 white people converged outside the family’s home for the fifth night in an eight-day-long siege to enforce racial covenants in the planned “Levittown” community of 60,000 residents.

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On this day in 1957, hundreds of white residents terrorized a Black family who bought a house in an all-white community in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania.
https://t.co/hqje2fEkDR

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On this day in 1904, a mob of white men in Marengo County, Alabama, lynched Rufus Lesseur, a 24-year-old Black man, for allegedly frightening a white woman.
https://t.co/9zU26pEf3O

[Edinburgh International Festival @edintfest]

The Legacy of Slavery explores the connections between historical injustice and the inequalities that persist today. Created by the @eji_org and eminent civil rights lawyer, Bryan Stevenson.

📅 Until 30 August
📸 1, 6 & 7 Amy Hecht, 2 - 5 Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

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On this day in 1966, three firebombs were hurled through the windows of a Black church that had recently opened in an all-white neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island.
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