117th Congress February 2020
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act named after 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, sparking national and international outrage.
Levy County, Florida 1923
The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923
Tulsa, Oklahoma 1921
Mobs of White residents, some of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and destroyed homes and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa,
Mobile, Alabama 1860
A historic community formed by a group of 32 West Africans, who in 1860 were included in the last known illegal shipment of enslaved people to the United States.
Fresno, California 1842
The first town in California established exclusively by African Americans, was founded in 1908 by a group of men led by Colonel Allen Allensworth. Born a slave in Louisville, Kentucky in 1842, Allensworth became the highest ranking black officer in the U.S. Army when he retired in 1906.
Long Island, New York 1839
August 1839, a U.S. brig came across the schooner Amistad off the coast of Long Island, New York. Aboard the Spanish ship were a group of Africans who had been captured and sold illegally as slaves in Cuba. The enslaved Africans then revolted at sea and won control of the Amistad from their captors.
Philadelphia Bombing 1985
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