Charles Johnson

A seasoned trial lawyer and counselor to institutions in the public and private sectors. His practice includes public policy and complex business disputes

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1929, more than 200 Black residents of North Platte, Nebraska, were terrorized by a white mob and forced to flee, leaving behind their homes forever.
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[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1969, Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox announced he would rather close all public schools in the state for several years than comply with integration orders from the Justice Department.
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[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1954, weeks after Brown v. Board of Education, at Gov. Gordon Persons's urging, the Alabama Education Board voted unanimously to continue enforcing segregation.
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[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1860, more than 50 years after Congress banned the trafficking of enslaved Africans into the United States, the ship Clotilda arrived in Mobile, Alabama, carrying more than 100 enslaved people from West Africa.
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[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1822, Denmark Vesey, a Black carpenter, was executed in Charleston, South Carolina, for planning to emancipate enslaved people.
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[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

At least 776,000 children have lost food assistance due to the unprecedented cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program made by the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” signed last July.
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[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1965, a white Alabama sheriff padlocked the doors to a Black church to prevent discussion of civil rights, even though he did not have the authority to do so.
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[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1962, a hotel in Atlanta refused to provide a room to Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Ralph Bunche because he was Black.
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[Charles Johnson @csjohnsonga]

Seventy books have been nominated for the 2026 Lillian Smith Book Awards, which will be presented during the Decatur Book Festival on October 3, 2026. https://t.co/KkNfCnCO0z

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1943, white U.S. military police fired on Black U.S. soldiers stationed during World War II in the village of Bamber Bridge, England, killing a Black soldier named Private William Crossland.
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[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 2013, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act and effectively gutted one of the nation’s most important and successful civil rights laws.
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[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1940, NAACP leader and voting rights activist Elbert Williams was abducted and lynched by a group of white men, including the local sheriff, in Brownsville, Tennessee.
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[Mississippi Today @MSTODAYnews]

On this day in 1965, three white men fatally shot Willie Brewster as he headed home from work at a pipe foundry near Anniston, Alabama. https://t.co/4HxWtmDY3S

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1963, law enforcement officers in Gadsden, Alabama, used electric cattle prods on and arrested over 450 Black protesters who were holding a sit-in to oppose segregation.
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[Union of Southern Service Workers @RaiseUptheSouth]

Today in Southern labor history, June 17, 1943, tobacco workers in Winston-Salem launched a sit-down strike at R.J. Reynolds. Led largely by Black women, the strike fought for better wages, conditions, and Black freedom — and won. ✊🏽 #OrganizeTheSouth

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 2015, a 21-year-old white man opened fire on a group of Black worshippers at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people.
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[Charles Johnson @csjohnsonga]

Crystal Sanders Received a 2025 Lillian Smith Book Award for her book "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs."https://t.co/xGEgoyWPZb via @YouTube

[Charles Johnson @csjohnsonga]

Robert Cohen Received a 2025 Lillian Smith Book Award for his book "Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century."https://t.co/0N2FMpUeqe via @YouTube

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1989, NYPD officers arrested five teenagers—four of whom were Black and one of whom was Latino—subjected them to coercive interrogation, and charged them with rape despite their innocence. All were sentenced to 5-13 years.
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