Today in History
Where did were nine students bravely desegregated a High School in September 1957?
Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Who was Gwendolyn Brooks?
The first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize
What is the Capitol of Arkansas?
Little Rock
What was Red Summer?
Red Summer is the period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots took place in more than three dozen cities across the United States
What did the Congress avoid this week with a last minute vote?
Government Shut down
Where on September 29, 1919 were two former soldiers killed over allegations they assaulted two white women in separate incidents?
Montgomery, Alabama
Who were Miles Phifer and Robert Crosky?
Two former soldiers killed over allegations they assaulted two white women in separate incidents on September 29, 1919
What is the first Capitol of the Confederacy?
Montgomery, Alabama
What was the The Great Migration?
By 1919, an estimated 500,000 African Americans had emigrated from the Southern United States to the industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest
In Príncipe, an island nation off the west coast of Africa, efforts are underway to conserve bees by ending what traditional but controversial practice?
bee burning (or burning beehives)
Where did a riot began when a lynch mob stormed the county jail in search of a biracial man who had been accused of murdering a white woman.
Knoxville, Tennesse
Who was Maurice Mays?
He was accused of murdering a white woman in Knoxville Tennessee and a riot began when a lynch mob stormed the county jail in search of him.
Whats the eastern Tennessee city where race riots happened in September 1919?
Knoxville
Who was James Weldon Johnson?
Civil rights activist, author and leader in the NAACP he coined the term "Red Summer". In 1919, he organized peaceful protests against the racial violence which had occurred that summer.
A $981 million NASA mission aims to study a swarm of asteroids that follows the same orbit as what planet?
Jupiter
Where were at least ten people were killed and a further forty injured when rioting started after reports that a white man was killed by a stray bullet fired during a fight between two groups of black men?
Harriston, Mississippi
Who is 107 year old Mamie Kirkland?
She is the women who 100 years ago fled Ellisville, Miss. with her family, in fear that her father would be lynched.
What state is between Louisiana and Alabama?
Mississippi
Name one of the reasons that Red Summer occurred
1. demobilization of both black and white members of the United States Armed Forces following World War 2. an economic slump 3. Racial bias 4. increased competition in the job and housing markets between white Americans and African Americans
What is the name of the group that now rules Afghanistan, after a quick takeover in August as the nation's military and government collapsed and U.S. troops withdrew?
Taliban
September 28–29 1919 a mob of 10,000 whites attacked and burned the county courthouse to force the release of a black prisoner accused of raping a white woman. Where did this happen?
Omaha, Nebraska
Who was Will Brown?
He was the black man accused of raping a white woman in Omaha, Nebraska.
Whats the largest city in Nebraska?
Omaha
What is Lynching?
Lynching, a form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting torture and corporal mutilation. The term lynch law refers to a self-constituted court that imposes sentence on a person without due process of law
What is the economic term for when prices rise and money buys less -- a condition which has been elevated this year in America and some other countries?
Inflation