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#OnThisDay in 1928, Burl Toler was born in Memphis. The first Black official in any major sport in the U.S., he defeated prejudice at each turn. In 1951, he starred for the legendary undefeated University of San Francisco Dons. Prejudice kept the integrated team from playing in

#OnThisDay in 2007, an Alabama grand jury indicted former state trooper James Bonard Fowler for the Feb. 18, 1965, killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was trying to protect his mother from being beaten at Mack’s Café. At Jackson’s funeral, Martin Luther King Jr. called him “a

#onthisday in 1968, the Poor People’s Campaign arrived in Washington, D.C. A town called “Resurrection City” was erected as a tribute to the slain Martin Luther King Jr. King had conceived the campaign, which was led by his successor at the head of the Southern Christian

#OnThisDay in 1967, Benjamin Brown, a former civil rights organizer, was shot in the back in Jackson, Mississippi. Brown had walked with a friend into the Kon-Tiki Café to pick up a sandwich to take home to his wife. On his way back, he encountered a standoff between law

#OnThisDay in 1862, Robert Smalls and other Black Americans who were enslaved commandeered an armed Confederate ship in Charleston. Wearing a straw hat to cover his face, Smalls disguised himself as a Confederate captain. His wife, Hannah, and members of other families joined

Two Black men tortured by white “Goon Squad” deputies are considering a lawsuit against Rankin County Supervisor Steve Gaines for calling them “dopers” and rapists. “He will be held legally accountable. He has to be,” said Malik Shabazz, a lawyer for the two men, Eddie Parker

#OnThisDay in 1961, a group of Freedom Riders traveling by bus from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans arrived in Anniston, Alabama. A mob of white men led by a Klansman attacked the bus with baseball bats and iron pipes. They also slashed the tires. After the attack ended, the

#OnThisDay in 1970, Mississippi law enforcement officers opened fire on the Jackson State University campus, killing two Black students, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green. Police insisted the students fired first, but no evidence was found to confirm this. The

At Thursday’s standing-room-only Board of Supervisors’ meeting, several Rankin County citizens called for Supervisor Steve Gaines to resign because of remarks that some have called racist. The Rev. Ava Harvey, pastor for the Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church in Brandon,

#OnThisDay in 1950, 20 Black families from South Carolina filed a lawsuit, Briggs v. Elliott, the first direct attack on the validity of the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools. The litigation was later combined with the successful Brown v. Board of Education case.

#OnThisDay in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that the “separate but equal” doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson was unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment, which guaranteed equal treatment under the law. The historic decision brought

#OnThisDay in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-1 in Plessy v. Ferguson that racial segregation on railroads or similar public places was constitutional, forging the “separate but equal” doctrine that remained in place until 1954. In his dissent that would foreshadow the

Today is the 100th birthday of Malcolm X. He was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska. When he was 14, a teacher asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up and he answered that he wanted to be a lawyer. The teacher chided him, urging him to be realistic. “Why don’t you plan

#OnThisDay in 1961, a white mob of more than 300, including Klansmen, attacked Freedom Riders at the Greyhound Bus Station in Montgomery, Alabama. Future Congressman John Lewis was among them. “An angry mob came out of nowhere, hundreds of people, with bricks and balls,

#OnThisDay in 1892, crusading journalist Ida B. Wells published a column exposing the lynchings of Black men and denouncing claims that the lynchings were meant to protect white women. Her anti-lynching campaign came after a mob killed three of her friends, who had reportedly

Reading Jerry Mitchell' incredible investigation, "Race Against Time," and can say it's one of my favourite books this year. It's still relevant now. x.com/JMitchellNews/…

#OnThisDay in 2002, Alabama jury convicted Bobby Cherry of taking part in the Ku Klux Klan’s 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four girls. Cherry received four life sentences — one for each slaying. In 2004, he died in prison. Thomas Blanton, who was convicted in