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Martin Luther King: James Earl Ray
As soon as Martin Luther King fell, an aide, believed to be Marrell McCullough, pointed to the bathroom window of Bessie Brewer’s boarding house. The fingers of others followed him,…
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott a year-long protest in Montgomery, Alabama, that galvanized the American Civil Rights Movement and led to a 1956 decision by the Supreme Court of the United…
Detroit Riot of 1967
Detroit Riot of 1967, one of several racial disturbances in American cities during the summer of 1967. The summer of 1967 was a turbulent period in American history. Racial confrontations…
Harlem Riot of 1964
Harlem Riot of 1964, an urban rebellion resulting from African American protest of police brutality. At 9:30 pm on July 18, 1964, demonstrators rioted in the Harlem neighborhood of New…
Kerner Commission Report 1968
Kerner Report, the 1968 report of a federal government commission that investigated urban riots in the United States. The Kerner Report was released after seven months of investigation by the…
Watts Riot of 1965
Watts Riot of 1965, the first major racially-fueled rebellion of the 1960s, an event that foreshadowed the widespread urban violence of the latter half of the decade. With the arrest…
Civil Rights Riots
Riots in numerous American cities took place during the 1960s, even as victories were won against legal segregation and disfranchisement in the South. The Civil Rights Movement had raised hopes…
The Rosewood Massacre
Rosewood Case, one of the worst race riots in American history, in which hundreds of angry whites killed an undetermined number of blacks and burnt down their Florida community. In…
Selma: Bloody Sunday
In 1965 the SCLC joined a voting-rights protest march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery, more than 80 km (50 mi) away. The goal of the march…
Sit-Ins & Civil Rights Movement
The African American student protest movement started in 1960, in which black students occupied "white-only" lunch counters and other segregated public institutions throughout the South to protest segregated seating. On…
Civil Rights: A Dark Day
Six Dead After Church Bombing Blast Kills Four Children; Riots Follow Two Youths Slain; State Reinforces Birmingham Police…. Birmingham, Sept. 15 A bomb hurled from a passing car blasted a…
Viola Liuzzo: The Day of Her Death
After the march ended, thousands had to get out of the city before nightfall. Viola Liuzzo got her car and headed back to Selma with a load of passengers. She…
Viola Liuzzo: The Killers
Within 24 hours, President Johnson was on television, personally announcing the arrest of the four assailants and vowing to exterminate the KKK.A March 28 Detroit News article gave profiles of…
The Dark Ages: African American Guinea Pigs
Remember those studies on Black American; you know the unethical ones regarding the Syphilis Placebo trials. Well you can get the whole story and more about how American Government allowed…
Black Transpeople – Marsh P. Johnson
There is never really much discussion on Black Transpeople in America. I have not picked up an Ebony or Jet magazine lately, the people around me usually get the trashy…
Attica: Unity of Black and Hispanic Americans
Thursday September 9th 1971 around 8:00am several inmates with chains, baseball bats and pipes, took 40 guards hostage at Attica state prison. It was on September 8th that the inmates were…
