1893. Chicago. Ida B. Wells protested Black exclusion from exhibits at the World's Columbian Exposition inspiring visitor Robert S. Abbott. The Haitian building stood in as a center for Black people. Wells described Haiti's pavilion as “one of the gems of the World's Fair.”
A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide. https://t.co/h01mJkh9Kc
Lynching did not decline due to a sudden moral awakening. Instead, its fade was the result of a calculated compromise: the rural and working-class mobs who championed mob violence eventually yielded to middle-class demands for institutional due process creating legal lynching.
June 29, 1972. Furman v. Georgia. U.S. Supreme Court decision that temporarily halted the death penalty nationwide by ruling that existing capital punishment laws violated the Eighth Amendment when applied in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner.
Thousands of lives were tragically lost and homes were destroyed beyond repair when Hurricane Katrina violently ripped through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama on Aug. 29, 2005. https://t.co/rS0JagyomW
Keshia Golden, a survivor of domestic violence who says she accidentally killed her boyfriend in self-defense, accepted a plea deal and will avoid jail time https://t.co/6yammCmOoe