President Lincoln Signs the Emancipation Proclamation

President Lincoln Signs the Emancipation Proclamation

Florida: 15-Year-Old Boy Lynched for Sending Love Note

Florida: 15-Year-Old Boy Lynched for Sending Love Note

Nineteen Hopi Leaders Imprisoned in Alcatraz

Nineteen Hopi Leaders Imprisoned in Alcatraz

Mississippi Enacts Laws to Strengthen Convict Leasing

Mississippi Enacts Laws to Strengthen Convict Leasing

White Mob Destroys Black Community of Rosewood, Florida

White Mob Destroys Black Community of Rosewood, Florida

Richard and Mildred Loving Plead Guilty to Marrying Interracially

Richard and Mildred Loving Plead Guilty to Marrying Interracially

Tuskegee Students Protest Murder of Activist Samuel Younge Jr.

Tuskegee Students Protest Murder of Activist Samuel Younge Jr.

Enslaved Black People Revolt in Louisiana

Enslaved Black People Revolt in Louisiana

White Mobs Riot After Integration of University of Georgia

White Mobs Riot After Integration of University of Georgia

Voting Rights Activist Vernon Dahmer Killed in Mississippi

Voting Rights Activist Vernon Dahmer Killed in Mississippi

Georgia Governor Threatens to De-fund Schools That Integrate

Georgia Governor Threatens to De-fund Schools That Integrate

White Mob Murders Interracial Couple in Louisiana

White Mob Murders Interracial Couple in Louisiana

Four Alabama Churches Hold Services After Bombings

Four Alabama Churches Hold Services After Bombings

Black Residents Flee Maryville, Missouri, After Lynching

Black Residents Flee Maryville, Missouri, After Lynching

Supreme Court Ends School Integration Order in Oklahoma City

Supreme Court Ends School Integration Order in Oklahoma City

Alabama Criminalizes Creek and Cherokee Tribal Customs

Alabama Criminalizes Creek and Cherokee Tribal Customs

Alabama Legislature Bans Free Black People from Living in the State

Alabama Legislature Bans Free Black People from Living in the State

Southern University Condemns Students' Civil Rights Activism

Southern University Condemns Students' Civil Rights Activism

White Mobs Attack Filipino Farmworkers in Watsonville, California

White Mobs Attack Filipino Farmworkers in Watsonville, California

White Officials Attempt to Nullify Election of First Black Senator

White Officials Attempt to Nullify Election of First Black Senator

Portsmouth, Ohio, Banishes Black Residents

Portsmouth, Ohio, Banishes Black Residents

Supreme Court Ruling Allows KKK Violence to Continue

Supreme Court Ruling Allows KKK Violence to Continue

Klansmen Abduct and Murder Black Man in Montgomery, Alabama

Klansmen Abduct and Murder Black Man in Montgomery, Alabama

Killers of Emmett Till Confess in Look Magazine

Killers of Emmett Till Confess in Look Magazine

Cleo Wright Lynched in Sikeston, Missouri

Cleo Wright Lynched in Sikeston, Missouri

Supreme Court Upholds Plan to Close Rather than Integrate Georgia Park

Supreme Court Upholds Plan to Close Rather than Integrate Georgia Park

Police Responding to Dog Bite Kill Black Man in Birmingham, Alabama

Police Responding to Dog Bite Kill Black Man in Birmingham, Alabama

Black Man Cleared of Rape Charge; Later Lynched in Tampa, Florida

Black Man Cleared of Rape Charge; Later Lynched in Tampa, Florida

Supreme Court Upholds Anti-Miscegenation Laws

Supreme Court Upholds Anti-Miscegenation Laws

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Home Bombed in Montgomery, Alabama

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Home Bombed in Montgomery, Alabama

Louis Allen Murdered in Liberty, Mississippi

Louis Allen Murdered in Liberty, Mississippi