On this date in 2005 an alleged member of the Ku Klux Klan was arrested in connection with the 1964 shooting deaths of James Chaney, a 21-year-...
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Fri, 2005-01-07
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Wed, 2005-03-02
*On This date in 2005, Jackie Robinson was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal. This happened more than half a century after he...
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Sat, 2005-04-16
On this date in 2005, the Rosa Parks OutKast court case was settled.
Parks, activist in the 1950s, and rap duo OutKast have resolved a...
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Thu, 2005-05-05
On this date in 2005, Lena Baker, an African American woman, was pardoned posthumously for a murder.
In 1944, Baker was sentenced to...
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Mon, 2005-06-13
On this date in 2005, the United States Senate issued a resolution addressing their delay in voting against American lynching.
The decree...
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Tue, 2005-06-21
On this date in 2005, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was convicted of manslaughter in Mississippi.
Edgar Ray Killen was convicted...
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Thu, 2005-06-23
On this date in 2005, a division of Nextel Communications publicly apologized for its racially explicit advertising for its cell phone.
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Wed, 2005-06-29
On this date in 2005, the Mexican government issued postage stamps of Memín Pinguín.
Memín Pinguín was created by the late Yolanda Vargas...
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Sun, 2005-07-31
On this date in 2005, a Black teenager, was murdered in England with an ax in a hate crime.
Anthony Walker, 18, was waiting for a bus...
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Thu, 2005-09-29
On this date in 2005, radio talk show host William Bennett was quoted as making racially divisive statements about African Americans in relation...
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Thu, 2005-10-27
On this date in 2005, racial rioting began in France.
Starting in a northeastern Paris suburb of Toulouse, African immigrants were angry...
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Mon, 2005-12-12
On this date in 2005, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to spare the life of African American Stanley Tookie Williams.
Jesse...
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Fri, 2005-12-16
On this date in 2005, Actor Morgan Freeman...
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Fri, 2006-10-20
On this date in 2006, the heritage of the Tuskegee Airmen became a component of the classroom curriculum of the United States Air Force Officers...
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Wed, 2006-11-08
On this date in 2006, Minneapolis, MN, elected the nation's first Muslim member of Congress, and the state's first nonwhite representative in...
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Wed, 2006-11-08
On this date in 2006, Massachusetts elected the first black person to win the state's highest office in its 218-year history....
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Mon, 2006-11-13
On this date in 2006, the ceremonial groundbreaking for the Martin Luther King Jr., National Memorial in Washington, D.C., took place.
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Fri, 2006-11-17
On this date in 2006, a popular white comedian openly, publicly, and repeatedly insulted Blacks at a comedy club in Los Angeles.
Michael...
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Tue, 2007-01-16
On this date in 2007, a Virginia state legislator said black people "should get over" slavery and questioned whether Jews should apologize "for...
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Sun, 2007-02-25
*On this date in 2007, the Virginia General Assembly voted unanimously to express "profound regret" for the state's role in slavery.
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