The Center for Investigative Reporting issues findings that California sterilized nearly 150 incarcerated women in a 5-year period.
Mississippi ratifies the 13th Amendment.
James Byrd, Jr. is beaten by 3 White men before being dragged behind a pickup truck for 2 miles, ultimately causing his dismemberment.
Tennessee ratifies the 13th Amendment.
Wilcox County High School (Abbeville, GA) holds first racially integrated prom.
A middle school in Nyack, NY served chicken and waffles with a side of watermelon on the first day of Black History Month.
Tuner County High School (Ashburn, GA) holds its first racially integrated prom.
A White supervisor at a cotton gin in Memphis, TN threatens to hang Black workers for drinking from a "White" drinking fountain.
Jonny Gammage is stopped by Pittsburgh police for a routine traffic violation. Five officers kill him by pinning him face down on the pavement until he asphyxiates. (All officers were acquitted/have charges dismissed).
The League of the South asks Congress to pay $5 billion in reparations for "property" (including enslaved people) taken or destroyed by the Union in the Civil War.
April 8, 1997
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