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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!
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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 has scheduled the execution of Jeffery Lee by nitrogen suffocation for June 11, even though his capital jury voted against the death penalty and chose a sentence of life imprisonment without parole.
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Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Drayton Nabers Jr. on how a commutation of Jeffery Lee's death sentence would display "fidelity to the conservative principles of limited government, respect for the jury system, and the rule of law." yellowhammernews.com/drayton…
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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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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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After James Meredith was shot during his 220-mile "March Against Fear" civil rights marchers continued the journey to Memphis, Tennessee in solidarity with him.
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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, Texas, killed two Black men as they walked home from a festival. Days prior white mobs terrorized 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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Last week, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Terry Pitchford, a Black man sentenced to death in Mississippi after a prosecutor with a track record of racial discrimination struck all but one Black person from his jury.
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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 1893, 1,500 white people lynched Sam Bush on the courthouse lawn in Decatur, IL. The mob distributed pieces of rope used to hang him as “souvenirs.”
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On this day in 1965, Oneal Moore was killed when he and his partner, the first two Black sheriff’s deputies in Washington Parish, Louisiana, were ambushed by gunmen with ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
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