On this day in 1868, violence erupted in Opelousas, Louisiana, when white residents resentful of African Americans' new voting rights attacked and killed hundreds of people.

On this day in 1958, after violent resistance to integrating Little Rock Central High School, white residents voted to close public schools rather than integrate.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice overlooks a hilltop in Montgomery. It is the nation's first comprehensive memorial dedicated to the legacy of Black Americans who were enslaved, terrorized by lynching, humiliated by racial segregation, and presumed guilty and dangerous.

Listen to Bryan Stevenson and Katie Couric's discussion on truth-telling, how to honestly reconcile with history, and what is required of us in this moment to do justice.

On this day in 1963, the Alabama Supreme Court upheld the contempt conviction of Mary Hamilton, a Black woman who refused to allow an Alabama district attorney to disrespect her in court.

Today, Mr. West was executed by the state of Alabama. Mr. West’s execution is the fourth in Alabama this year.

Geoffrey West was sentenced to death for the fatal shooting of Margaret Parrish Berry. Her son, Will Berry, was 11 at the time. Mr. Berry has been fighting to spare Mr. West's life, telling the New York Times, "this is only going to cause more pain."

On this day in 1913, the Baltimore City Council passed an ordinance requiring Black and white residents to live on separate blocks. The law was part of the first city-wide effort in the country to create legally segregated neighborhoods.

Braxton Bragg was an unpopular military figure whose own soldiers tried to kill him. He contended that slavery was “just and necessary.” In June, the Trump Administration ordered the name of Fort Bragg to be restored.

On this day in 1964, a crowd of at least 7,500 white demonstrators marched in New York City to protest against racial integration in the city’s public school system.

Geoffrey West, 49, is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen suffocation on Thursday, September 25. Mr. West’s execution is the fifth scheduled in Alabama this year.

On this day in 1955, an all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted the two white men who murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till.

The USDA's Household Food Security Reports provide critical data on food security. After this year, the annual report will no longer be written. This decision comes amid rising food insecurity and steep cuts to federal feeding programs.

On this day in 1906, mobs of angry white men gathered in the streets of Atlanta to attack and kill dozens of innocent Black men on sight.

On this day in 2011, Georgia executed Troy Davis despite new evidence of his innocence. The evidence was so compelling that three of his jurors urged the government to stop the execution.

On this day in 1664, the Maryland legislature passed the first colonial law intended to prevent interracial marriage. It would take over 300 years for such “anti-miscegenation” laws to be banned across the U.S.

On this day in 1868, white mobs led by the local sheriff in Camilla, Georgia, ambushed and attacked Black people and supporters at a political rally, killing at least 7 people in a mass lynching.

"Hallow" by Daniel Popper at Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. Plan your visit to the Legacy Sites here: legacysites.eji.org

On this day in 1923, the NAACP denounced remarks by Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Mayor Joseph Cauffiel, who had threatened Black and Mexican migrants, telling them to leave town or risk violence.

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job." Justice Sonia Sotomayor explains what is allowed by last week's Supreme Court order.

On this day in 1630, the Virginia Assembly sentenced Hugh Davis, a white man, to be whipped for having a relationship with a Black person.

On this day in 1928, a levee broke during a Florida hurricane, killing thousands of Black farmworkers. Black victims were denied proper burials—their bodies were stacked in piles and burned.

"If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs." — Mary McLeod Bethune

John Bell Hood was a failed Confederate leader who believed Black people were inferior and fought against the U.S. to preserve slavery. This year, his name was reinstated on a military base.

On this day in 1963, a white man detonated a bomb under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, with 400 congregants inside. Four Black children were killed in the blast.

On this day in 1874, 1,500 members of the White League—a militia of Confederate veterans opposed to the civil rights goals of Reconstruction—attacked New Orleans and overthrew the Louisiana government.

On this day in 1907, white Methodist ministers in Michigan voted to exclude Black clergy from leadership positions in the church, grounding this vote in white supremacist views and fears of Black advancement.

On this day in 1966, 250 Black students were attacked for trying to integrate schools in Grenada, Mississippi. Twelve years after Brown v. Board, the city maintained fully segregated schools.

Edmund Rucker profited off the lethal system of convict leasing. He killed U.S. soldiers to defend slavery. His racist views persisted throughout his life, 40 years after the Civil War. And now, once again, there is a military base named in his honor.

On this day in 1895, South Carolina officials met to rewrite the state constitution. Their work resulted in a new constitution that successfully disenfranchised Black voters for nearly 70 years.

"When people allow themselves to be governed by fear and anger, they begin to tolerate things they wouldn’t otherwise tolerate." Hear Bryan Stevenson's conversation with the New York Times on the impact of truth-telling in the current moment.

On this day in 1963, white students began to withdraw from the newly integrated Tuskegee High School in Alabama to avoid attending school with Black students. Within one week, all 275 white students had stopped attending the school.

On this day in 1957, white church members and a minister preaching against the sinfulness of racial integration staged a protest outside of desegregating Nashville schools. The next day, a local elementary school was bombed.

On this day in 1910, the Texas House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution encouraging U.S. senators and congressmen to work toward repealing the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted citizenship to Black people born in the U.S.

On this day in 1963, local merchants in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, began enforcing an ordinance that denied service to all members of the U.S. military, regardless of their race, to protest integration.

On this day in 1913, eight Black men at a Texas prison farm suffocated after they were placed in an underground cell as punishment for not picking cotton fast enough.

On this day in 1912, a white mob in Princeton, West Virginia, lynched an innocent Black man named Robert Johnson after he was wrongly accused of assaulting a white girl.

Henry Benning said “give me pestilence and famine” sooner than electing a Black person. Despite being committed to racial inequality, the Trump Administration recently has renamed a military base in Georgia in his honor.

On this day in 1875, armed white men from Clinton and Vicksburg, Mississippi, formed roving bands targeting Black men. An estimated 50 Black people were killed.

On this day in 1901, Alabama adopted a new state constitution that prohibited interracial marriage and mandated separate schools for Black and white children.

In 2022, Arizona got rid of peremptory strikes—the primary tool used throughout most of the 20th century to prevent people of color from serving on juries. So far, the state's innovative move appears to be paying off.

Listen to this podcast with Bryan Stevenson on the moves the U.S. is making to censor the Smithsonian and institutions like it that are trying to tell the truth about the history of America.

On this day in 1885, white miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, waged a brutal attack against Chinese miners hired by the Union Pacific Railroad, 28 dozens dead. No one was ever held responsible.

On this day in 1884, a San Francisco public school refused to accept an 8-year-old Chinese student's enrollment because of her race.

On this day in 1966, 12 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the Alabama Senate passed a law that made it illegal for public schools to make school integration plans with federal officials.

For Juneteenth this year, we were joined by the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers, Cécile McLorin Salvant, and Terence Blanchard who all lent their incredible talents to our celebrations. Hosted at the Legacy Sites, we were thrilled to be able to bring such accomplished musical guests to Montgomery.

On this day in 1956, mobs of white citizens blocked Mansfield High School to prevent Black children from registering. The mob also burned a Black effigy at the top of the school’s flagpole.

On this day in 1961, a white man brutally beat civil rights leader Bob Moses as he accompanied Black residents of Amite County, Mississippi, to the county courthouse to register to vote.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in 2018. It is a sacred space for truth telling and reflection about racial terrorism and its legacy. In 2022, we expanded the National Memorial to include a "Community Reckoning" section.

On this day in 1955, two white men abducted and murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.