From 2018 EJI Calendar 2008: Police officers in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania face federal charges for covering up murder of Mexican immigrant Luis Ramirez by white teens spewing racial slurs. From EJI Timeline Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, Police Officials Indicted for Attempting to Cover Up Murder of Mexican Immigrant On July 12, 2008, six white teenagers beat Mexican immigrant […]
From 2018 EJI Calendar 1977: Newspapers report that Cornell and Geraldine Cook, the only black couple in a white neighborhood in Smithfield, North Carolina, plan to leave after shots are fired into their home. From EJI Timeline Black Family Flees Smithfield, North Carolina, White Neighborhood After Violent Harassment Around 3:30 a.m. on December 3, 1977, […]
From 2018 EJI Calendar 1874: After Peter Crosby, a former slave is elected sheriff in Vicksburg, Mississippi, whites remove him and kill black citizens who try to reinstate him. Crosby is later shot in the head by J.P. Gilmer, a deputy. From EJI Timeline Vicksburg, Mississippi Massacre: White Mob Attacks Black Political Meeting During the […]
James Baldwin and his words are still as relevant as the day on which they were first spoken! He speaks to each and every one of us! If you like this, watch “I Am Not Your Negro” – fantastic documentary film of his life. The trailer for this important film follows.
From 2018 EJI Calendar 1915: In Mackenzie v. Hare, U.S. Supreme Court upholds federal statue striping women of their U.S. citizenship if they marry “foreigners.” From EJI Timeline U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Law Stripping Citizenship from American Women Who Marry Foreign Men In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt signed into law the Expatriation Act of 1907, […]
From 2018 EJI Calendar 1960: In Boynton v. Virginia, U.S. Supreme court rules that racial segregation in interstate bus terminal restaurants is unconstitutional. From EJI Timeline U.S. Supreme Court Rules Racial Segregation in Interstate Bus Terminals Is Unconstitutional In 1958, Bruce Boynton, an African American student at Howard Law School, was traveling by bus from […]
From 2018 EJI Calendar 1849: Massachusetts Supreme Court hears argument in Roberts v. City of Boston and later rules that the city can mandate separate separate schools for black and white children. From EJI Timeline Massachusetts Supreme Court Upholds Segregated Schools The Massachusetts Supreme Court declared slavery illegal in 1783, a decision which ushered in […]
From 2018 EJI Calendar 1970: Cesar Chavez is jailed in Monterey County, California after he refuses to follow a court order demanding that he call off a migrant farmworker’s stricke against a lettuce farm. From EJI Timeline Cesar Chavez Jailed for Continuing Farmworker Strike During the summer of 1970, farm owners in California’s Salinas Valley, […]
From 2018 EJI Calendar 1995: Criminologists predict youth crime wave by “radically impulsive, brutally remorseless” black male “super-predators,” leading to laws that expose thousands of kids to adult prosecution. From EJI Timeline False Myth of the “Super-Predator” On November 27, 1995, the Weekly Standard published an article by Princeton University political science professor John Dilulio, […]
From 2018 EJI Calendar 1927: U.S. Supreme Court in Gong Lum v. Rice allows Chinese citizen’s exclusion from a state school for white children because she can attend a “colored school” with equal education facilities. From EJI Timeline Supreme Court Upholds Law Banning Chinese Americans From White Schools First adopted in 1890 following the end […]
