Leon X the Unknown

Leon Rogers is a fireball of energy... - New York Times
(he/him)

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1966, James Meredith was shot on the second day of his 220-mile "March Against Fear" to encourage Black voter registration and defy white supremacy across the South.
https://t.co/e4CvkkY99y

[Mississippi Today @MSTODAYnews]

On this day in 1966, James Meredith was shot a day after he began his one-man, 220-mile March Against Fear. https://t.co/PFSs2dfcOs

[Leon X the Unknown @LeonX]

@DragonflyJonez He's just a small-town kid from Richmond.

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1910, a white mob in Orange, Texas, killed two Black men as they walked home from a festival. Days prior white mobs terrorized Black residents after a jury failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a Black man accused of killing a white man.
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[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Terry Pitchford, a Black man sentenced to death in Mississippi after a prosecutor with a track record of racial discrimination struck all but one Black person from his jury.
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[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

🗣️🗣️🗣️KING on “negative peace,” which excludes justice. #MLK #NegativePeace #TheKingCenter

[Ave @SebastianAvenue]

June 4, 1972, Angela Davis after 13 hours of deliberation was ruled not guilty by an all white jury. Guns belonging to Davis were used in a Marin County Court takeover in which people were killed and she was held for conspiracy to murder which she was acquitted of all charges.

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1963, 24 hours after three Georgia movie theaters began operating on a racially integrated basis, protests from white community members led the theaters to restore segregation practices.
https://t.co/wYOYfgUf6A

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer was arrested and beaten in Winona, Mississippi, while returning from a voter education workshop in South Carolina. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/7mLgNX7ar0

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1893, 1,500 white people lynched Sam Bush on the courthouse lawn in Decatur, IL. The mob distributed pieces of rope used to hang him as “souvenirs.”
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[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1965, Oneal Moore was killed when he and his partner, the first two Black sheriff’s deputies in Washington Parish, Louisiana, were ambushed by gunmen with ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
https://t.co/k6PMYFXQUF

[Leon X the Unknown @LeonX]

@Kil889 I've played bass off and on since 1981. I've been blessed to play bass with my son at several of his recitals. Keep pushing.

[Mississippi Today @MSTODAYnews]

On this day in 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned Alabama’s ban on the NAACP. https://t.co/pKDiL3mYpa

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1921, white mobs in Oklahoma—outraged that Black residents had organized to protect a Black man from lynching—violently destroyed a prosperous Black community. As many as 300 Black people are estimated to have been killed in the Tulsa Massacre.
https://t.co/RI1DPdKEbJ

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1930, a white mob stormed the Grady County jail in Oklahoma and lynched Henry Argo, a Black 19-year-old, despite the presence of the National Guard who were ordered to protect him.
https://t.co/qC6p4EPIcW

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1943, white sailors and soldiers in Los Angeles attacked Latino youth wearing zoot suits, beating them with belt buckles and ropes and stripping them of their clothes.
https://t.co/Dod138hYoS

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

The King Center remembers the Woolworth Sit-In, Jackson, Mississippi. #OTD in 1963, three young activists staged a sit-in at the whites-only Woolworth’s counter in downtown Jackson-an act met with brutal violence and national attention. Their courage, captured in a defining moment of the Civil Rights Movement, helped pave the way toward the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. #WoolworthSitIn #HistoryMatters #Nonviolence365 #TheKingCenter

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1930, the U.S. Department of War forced the grieving families of Black veterans killed abroad to travel separately from white families to visit their loved ones’ graves.
https://t.co/FocDInOytp

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1830, President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, forcing Indigenous people who had lived in the southeastern U.S. for centuries to migrate west in brutal and dangerous conditions.
https://t.co/jmxsbO2zup

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1892, a white mob destroyed Ida B. Wells's newspaper office while she was away and threatened bodily harm if she returned because she challenged the myth of Black criminality.
https://t.co/6eRXgJIOMA