From 2018 EJI Timeline U.S. Supreme Court Orders Mississippi to Desegregate Schools 15 Years After Brown v. Board In 1954, the United States Supreme Court struck down racially segregated schools as unconstitutional in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education. In the aftermath of the decision, many school districts tried to maintain segregated […]
Eccole LLC’s 1st Inaugural Scary Truths’ Panel Discussion and Haunted House Benefiting Displaced Families and Youth Advocacy (What’s Really Haunting Our Youth) Saturday, 7:00 pm., Oct. 27th, 2018 105 DeSoto, Clarksdale Clarksdale, MS and Surrounding Areas ~ Eccole LLC 1st Inaugural Scary Truths’ Panel Discussion and Haunted House is an awakening to real challenges encountered […]
This terrific image of Issaquena Avenue this month in 1939 comes via Clay Motley, Clarksdale friend and Ph.D. associate professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University. Image source here. ClarksdaleNews remembers weekends on Issaquena in the late ’50’s and into the early ’60’s. Even then, the crowds seemed larger than in this image, and […]
From WROX: A cousin of Emmett Till will be in Cleveland tonight talking about the 1955 abduction and killing of the black teenager which helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. will speak at 7PM at Delta State University. Parker traveled from Chicago to Mississippi together; Parker says he heard Till whistle […]
From 2018 EJI Calendar 1960: Martin Luther King joins sit-in protest in department store in downtown Atlanta and is arrested with 51 others for attempting to desegretate the city’s stores and restaurants. From EJI Timeline Martin Luther King Arrested in Atlanta Sit-In Protest On October 19, 1960, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and 51 others […]
From 2018 EJI Calendar 1933: Mob of 2,000 in Princess Anne, Maryland takes George Armwood from jail, beats him, hangs him, drags his body through the streets, then burns his corpse. From EJI Timeline Two Thousand Whites Brutally Lynch George Armwood in Maryland On October 18, 1933, a mob of at least 2000 white residents […]
From 2018 EJI Calendar 1968: U.S. Sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise black-gloved fists on the medal stand at Olympics in Mexico to protest racial inequality in U.S.; they receive death threats for years after returning home. From EJI timeline: U.S. Sprinters Protest Racial Inequality on Medal Stand at Olympics On October 16, 1968, […]
From THE WASHINGTON POST by Michael Laris BALTIMORE —It was midway through a brutal accounting of lynching in Maryland and elsewhere in America — the lack of humanity, the mob attacks, the bodies burned — and Toni Pratt wasn’t sure this is what she needed. Pratt, a community organizer from Annapolis, had joined more than […]
From 2018 EJI Calendar 1995: Five Police officers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kill black motorist Jonny Grammage during a routine traffic stop by pinning him facedown on the pavement until he asphyxiates. From EJI Timeline Three Pennsylvania, Police Officers Kill Unarmed Black Motorist During Traffic Stop Jonny Gammage, cousin and business partner of Pittsburgh Steelers football […]
A Painful Past Creates a Better Future An attorney and author, Bryan Stevenson created the National Memorial for Peace and Justice to remember the country’s painful past, in hopes of a brighter future. Lester Holt visits the moving memorial, making a powerful personal discovery of his own. The National Memorial opened April 26th in Montgomery […]
