SEPT. 15, 1963: 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH BOMBING
The 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed in an act of terrorism in Birmingham, Alabama.
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@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 15, 1963: 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH BOMBING
The 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed in an act of terrorism in Birmingham, Alabama.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 14, 2013: JONATHAN FERRELL KILLED BY POLICE
Jonathan Ferrell was killed by police in Charlotte, North Carolina.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 14, 1941: RALLY AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
Following years of organizing against police brutality, four marches from different points in the city of Washington, D.C. converged at 10th and U Streets NW.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 14, 1911: EL PRIMER CONGRESO MEXICANISTA CONVENES IN LAREDO
First Mexicanist Congress met in Laredo, Texas in order to discuss social, labor, educational, and economic issues facing Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the United States.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 13, 1965: PEOPLE AGAINST RACISM FOUNDED IN DETROIT
People Against Racism organized white people by creating suburban freedom schools, developing school curriculum, raising the alarm on “law and order” politics, and through other means.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 13, 1858: OBERLIN WELLINGTON RESCUE
Eighteen-year-old John Price was arrested by a federal marshal in Oberlin, Ohio under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 13, 1847: LOS NIÑOS HÉROES OF THE U.S. MEXICO WAR
The Niños Héroes (translated as Boy Heroes or Heroic Cadets) were six military cadets killed in the Battle of Chapultepec, one of the last battles of the U.S. Mexico War.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 12, 1958: LITTLE ROCK PUBLIC SCHOOLS CLOSED
Governor Orval Faubus closed all Little Rock, Arkansas public schools for one year rather than allow integration.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 11, 2001: ORLANDO AND PHYLLIS RODRIGUEZ: “NOT IN OUR SON’S NAME”
Orlando and Phyllis Rodriguez spoke out against using September 11, 2001 as a pretext for war.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 11, 1990: MURDER OF MYRNA MACK
Anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang was murdered in Guatemala by the U.S.-backed military due to her outspoken criticism of the Guatemala government’s treatment of the indigenous Maya.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 11, 1973: U.S.-BACKED COUP IN CHILE
Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende was killed in a U.S.-backed coup.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 11, 1851: CHRISTIANA RESISTANCE
A community of armed Black men and women in Christiana, Pennsylvania successfully defended four Black people from capture, serving as a catalyst for further armed self-defense within the abolitionist movement.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 10, 1897: LATTIMER MASSACRE
Nineteen mineworkers were killed and dozens were wounded in the Lattimer Massacre.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 10, 1895: SOUTH CAROLINA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION CONVENED
The South Carolina Constitutional Convention convened to disenfranchise Black voters.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 9, 1980: PLOWSHARES EIGHT ARRESTED FOR SABOTAGING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
To protest nuclear warfare, a group of eight Catholic and anti-nuclear weapons activists, including two priests and a nun, broke into a General Electric facility in King of Prussia.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 9, 1971: ATTICA PRISON UPRISING
The Attica Prison Uprising began when prisoners took control of part of the prison in Upstate New York.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 9, 1915: THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY
ASALH was established by Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 9, 1739: THE STONO REBELLION
Uprising by enslaved people in South Carolina.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 8, 1965: DELANO GRAPE STRIKE BEGAN
The Delano grape strike began in California.
@democracymatters.bsky.socialSEPT. 8, 1900: GALVESTON HURRICANE
An unexpected hurricane crashed into the Gulf Coast and devastated Galveston, Texas, leaving thousands of people dead and even more left houseless. The storm’s turmoil and destruction allowed white terror and fraud to flourish.