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.
81 years ago today, during his execution, George Stinney was forced to sit on a book. His body was too small for the straps of the electric chair. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y7N...
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.
Join us at the Legacy Sites to celebrate this Juneteenth. Admission to all four of the Legacy Sites will be completely free. We hope to see you there!
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.
Cason Helms, 41, was killed at Elmore Correctional Facility in Alabama on Sunday. Mr. Helms is the ninth person killed in an Alabama prison in as many months.
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.
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.
Great news! Jeffery Lee will not be executed by the State of Alabama tonight. The Supreme Court just issued an order refusing to overturn a federal court’s ruling that nitrogen suffocation is unconstitutional.
