On this day in 1954, Southern state officials met in Virginia and organized resistance to the Supreme Court's recent decision in Brown v. Board of Education striking down school segregation.
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On this day in 1958, St. Petersburg, Florida, ordered the closure of a public indoor swimming pool because a Black 19-year-old named David Isom used the facility.
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FL police use A.I. to identify a vehicle theft suspect from surveillance video. Based on an "85% match" they arrest and charge Jalil Richardson. He spends 3 months in jail. He loses his job, his home, and custody of his kids.
Richardson lives in N.C.
He's never been to Florida. And his timesheet shows him at work at the time of the crime. No one checked before charging him. https://t.co/2AcQYwq30f
It’s crazy that no one actually explains these basics. According to the @uscensusbureau data only about 27 percent of the 20
million black households (not people) in America 🇺🇸 make more than $100,000. Only about 8 percent make more than $200,000. Again these are likely largely multi-income homes.
It is likely the case if you looked closer the number of Black individuals making $200,000 a year is sample negligible. Or by data nearly nonexistent.
The truth is the middle Black household again often multi income makes $56,000 combined.
Mary Turner was 21 and lynched in 1918. She publicly denounced her husband's lynching.
In retaliation, a White mob abducted her, hung her upside down, burned her alive, cut her unborn baby from her abdomen, crushed the infant, and riddled her body with 60 bullets.
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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@nateburleson Pay those young men…stupid to think they sacrifice their bodies to elevate themselves and families they should indeed benefit just like everyone else
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 gas station where 14 year old Cyrus Carmack-Belton was killed was surrounded by a heavy police presence. Authorities knew the community's anger, grief, and outrage were coming.
They prepared for the response.
What they could not contain was the pain of a family that lost a child, or the growing demand for accountability.
The badges, patrol cars, and barricades did not stop what happened next.
See the next post.