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On this day in 1940, NAACP leader and voting rights activist Elbert Williams was abducted and lynched by a group of white men, including the local sheriff, in Brownsville, Tennessee.

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On this day in 1865, after white Southerners had extended the enslavement of countless Black people by concealing the Civil War’s end for months, Union troops arrived in Texas. #Juneteenth

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In celebration of Juneteenth, EJl is offering free admission to the Legacy Sites tomorrow. Visit the Legacy Museum, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in downtown Montgomery. No tickets required for entry. Plan your visit at legacysites.eji.org

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EJI is delighted to welcome all those joining us for Juneteenth today. We will be offering free admission to The Legacy Museum, National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in honor of Juneteenth.

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On this day in 1963, law enforcement officers in Gadsden, Alabama, used electric cattle prods on and arrested over 450 Black protesters who were holding a sit-in to oppose segregation.

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On this day in 2015, a 21-year-old opened fire on a group of Black worshippers at A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people.

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On this day in 1944, George Stinney Jr., a 90-pound, 14-year-old boy, was executed in the electric chair in Columbia, South Carolina. He remains the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the 20th century.

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On this day in 1920, a mob of 5,000 to 10,000 white people lynched three Black men falsely accused of assault in Duluth, Minnesota.

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Donald Trump caused this. #FuckTrump #nokings www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/14/n...

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On this day in 1910, Louisiana broadened its law against interracial marriage, prohibiting Black and white people from living together and authorizing the state to break up thousands of families.

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#fucktrump #nokings

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On this day in 1904, a white judge ordered a Black mother to brutally whip her 15-year-old son in front of hundreds of white people in Lexington, Kentucky.

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On this day in 1945, Niecey Brown, a 74-year-old Black woman, died from injuries after an off-duty white Selma police officer forcibly entered her house and beat her with a bottle.

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The International Jury of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology Foundation has awarded the 2025 Stockholm Prize in Criminology to EJI Director Bryan Stevenson. The prize promotes the development of more effective and humane policies for preventing and responding to crime.

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On this day in 1967, a white officer killed Martin Chambers, an unarmed Black 19-year-old who reportedly had stopped running and had his hands up against a fence when he was shot.

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The State of Alabama executed Gregory Hunt, 65, today by nitrogen suffocation. He is the 81st person put to death in the state since 1976, despite a system that has been widely criticized and condemned.

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On this day in 1954, Southern state officials met in Virginia and organized resistance to the Supreme Court's recent decision in Brown v. Board of Education striking down school segregation.

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On this day in 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer was arrested and beaten in Winona, Mississippi, while returning from a voter education workshop in South Carolina.

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On this day in 1958, St. Petersburg, Florida, ordered the closure of a public indoor swimming pool because a Black 19-year-old named David Isom used the facility.

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#fucktrump #f47 #defenddemocracy

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On this day in 1920, the Ku Klux Klan hired publicists to grow membership for the white supremacist organization. Within 16 months, nearly 100,000 new members had joined, and by 1924, there were three million active members nationwide.

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On this day in 1966, James Meredith was shot on the second day of his 220-mile "March Against Fear" to encourage Black voter registration and defy white supremacy across the South.

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On this day in 1910, a white mob in Orange County, Texas, shot to death two Black men as they were walking home from a festival. In the days prior, white mobs had terrorized local Black residents after a jury failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a Black man accused of killing a white man.

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On this day in 1963, 24 hours after three Georgia movie theaters began operating on a racially integrated basis, protests from white community members led the theaters to restore segregation practices.

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On this day in 1961, a Virginia judge upheld racial segregation in courtrooms, dismissing as “totally without merit” the allegation that the practice of segregation was degrading.

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On this day in 1921, white mobs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, destroyed a prosperous Black community. As many as 300 Black people are estimated to have been killed in the Tulsa Massacre.

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On this day in 1930, a white mob stormed the Grady County jail in Oklahoma and lynched Henry Argo, a Black 19-year-old, despite the presence of the National Guard who were ordered to protect him.

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On this day in 1943, white sailors and soldiers in Los Angeles attacked Latino youth wearing zoot suits, beating them with belt buckles and ropes and stripping them of their clothes.

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#F47 #fucktrump #defenddemocracy

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On this day in 1930, the U.S. Department of War forced the grieving families of Black veterans killed abroad to travel separately from white families to visit their loved ones’ graves.

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On this day in 1830, President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, forcing Indigenous people who had lived in the southeastern U.S. for centuries to migrate west in brutal and dangerous conditions.

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On this day in 1892, a white mob destroyed Ida B. Wells's newspaper office while she was away and threatened bodily harm if she returned because she challenged the myth of Black criminality.

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On this day in 1924, Congress passed an act completely prohibiting immigration from Asia. While signing the act, President Coolidge remarked, “America must remain American.”

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No words needed. #defenddemocracy

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On this day in 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin forcefully pinned George Floyd to the ground and held his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes until he died.

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On this day in 1911, a white lynch mob in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, abducted Laura Nelson, a Black woman, and her young son, L.D., from a jail and hanged them from a bridge.

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If there was a nation who bombed hospitals, killing patients ,could you support it? If said nation cut off people from food, starved them, would you stand with it? If this country had a leader that supported ethnic cleansing to maintain his position, his control, would you be OK?

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin #F47 #DefendDemocracy #FuckTrump

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Something that can't be posted/said often enough: #fucktrump

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