Elaine Baker, Ph.D., Joins Panelists in Analysis of Historical Occurrence, The Poor People’s Campaign From COAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE by Melody Dixon At a recent black history observance, Professor Emerita Elaine Baker, a guest panelist who taught social work at Albany State University, a historically black college located in Albany, Georgia, told attendees that people have […]
From 2019 EJI Calendar 1898: After Frazier Baker is appointed postmaster of Sumter County, South Carolina, enraged local white people burn his home, fatally shoot him and his infant daughter, and wound his wife and other children. From EJI Timeline White Mob Attacks Black Postmaster and Family in South Carolina Lynching Frazier Baker was a […]
From 2019 EJI Calendar 1956: Grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama indicts 85 bus boycott leaders and charges them with violating a statue that barred boycotts without just cause. From EJI Timeline African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, began boycotting city buses in December 1955 to protest the poor treatment black passengers received on the segregated vehicles. […]
From 2019 EJI Calendar 1942: President Franklin Roosevelt signs Executive Order leading to forced internment of 120,000 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry living in the western U.S. From EJI Timeline During the early twentieth century, prejudice against Japanese Americans was rampant in the United States. After Japanese military forces bombed American forces at […]
Academic Robin DiAngelo: ‘We have to stop thinking about racism as someone who says the N-word’ Racism is a system rather than a slur; it is prejudice plus power! From THE GUARDIAN by Nosheen Iqbal Why is it so hard for white people to talk about racism? It is a question posed by the white […]
From 2019 EJI Calendar 1965: Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old black man, is shot by a white officer after police attack a peaceful civil rights protest in Marion, Alabama. He dies eight days later. From EJI Timeline On the evening of February 18, 1965, a group of civil rights activists gathered at the Zion United […]
Nkyinkyim Installation, a sculpture by Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, stands at the entrance of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. It depicts the trauma of enslavement and racial violence. Watch the video for a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of this piece at the artist’s studio in Ghana and its installation on the grounds […]
From 2019 EJI Calendar 1945: All-white grand jury refuses to indict any of six white men accused of raping Mrs. Recy Taylor in Abbeville, Alabama. They were never prosecuted. From EJI Timeline Grand Jury in Henry County, Alabama, Refuses to Indict Mrs. Recy Taylor’s White Attackers Around midnight on September 3, 1944, Recy Taylor, a […]
White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not! From THE GUARDIAN by Robin DiAngelo I am white. As an academic, consultant and writer on white racial identity and race relations, I speak daily with other white people about the meaning of race in our lives. These conversations are critical because, by […]
From 2019 EJI Calendar 1960: Nashville students launch sit-in demonstrations to demand an end to racial segregation at lunch counters. Fisk University student Diane Nash emerges as a leader and joins the Freedom Rides in 1961. From EJI Timeline Nashville Students Launched Protests; Later Faced Attack In February 1960, hundreds of volunteers – primarily black […]
