#thepeopleshistory

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory OCT. 22, 1955: JOHN EARL REESE MURDERED In an effort to stop the implementation of Brown v. Board through terrorism, 16-yr-old John Earl Reese was killed in Mayflower, Texas.

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory AUG. 4, 1964: CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS BODIES FOUND The bodies of three lynched civil rights workers (James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman) were found in Neshoba County, Mississippi.

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory AUG. 3, 1946: J. C. FARMER KILLED J. C. Farmer, a 19-year-old African American WWII veteran, was killed by a mob of 20 white men.

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory JULY 28, 1932: BONUS ARMY ATTACKED The U.S. government attacked an encampment of Black and white WWI veterans with tanks, bayonets, and tear gas.

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory JULY 28, 1914: WORLD WAR I BEGINS The First World War killed roughly 20 million people. Fighting transitioned from mainly human- and animal-powered to fossil fuel-powered technologies and accessing and protecting fossil fuel supplies became part of sustaining a powerful military. The Earth and the environment have suffered ever since.

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory JULY 27, 1919: RED SUMMER IN CHICAGO Sparked by a white police officer’s refusal to make an arrest in the murder of a Black teenager, violence in Chicago lasted almost a week. At least 38 people were killed and thousands of Black homes were looted and damaged during Red Summer.

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory JULY 19, 1881: ATLANTA WASHERWOMEN’S STRIKE Black women in Atlanta who washed clothes for a living organized an effective Reconstruction era strike — with clear demands, strategic timing, and door-to-door canvassing.

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory JULY 15, 1964: OZELL SUTTON DENIED SERVICE AT ARKANSAS CAPITOL CAFETERIA WWII veteran Ozell Sutton was denied service at the Arkansas Capitol cafeteria after visiting the building to collect voter registration materials.

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory JULY 13, 1863: NEW YORK CITY DRAFT RIOTS AND MASSACRE The New York City Draft Massacre (“Riots”) were the largest civil insurrection in U.S. history besides the Civil War itself. White mobs attacked the African American community — committing murder and burning homes and institutions (including an orphanage.)

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory JULY 12, 1964: HENRY DEE AND CHARLES MOORE CASE The bodies of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, were found in the Mississippi River. They had been tortured and murdered by the Klan two months earlier.

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory JULY 9, 1868: 14TH AMENDMENT ADOPTED!

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory JULY 7, 1912: JIM THORPE WINS OLYMPIC GOLD FOR U.S. Jim Thorpe was the first Native American to win Olympic gold for team U.S.A.

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory JULY 4, 1963: HUNDREDS NON-VIOLENTLY PROTEST GWYNN OAK AMUSEMENT PARK'S SEGREGATION POLICY Hundreds of civil rights demonstrators amassed on Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Baltimore, Maryland, to protest the park’s segregation policy.

#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory JUNE 27, 2015: BREE NEWSOME REMOVES CONFEDERATE FLAG While politicians debated the implications of taking down the Confederate flag after the white supremacist murder of nine African Americans at Emmanuel AME Church, Bree Newsome scaled the South Carolina state flag pole and took the flag down.