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Top 15 This Day in History Posts in 2019
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The Zinn Education Project's
This Day in History series introduces hundreds of thousands of people to stories they did not learn in school.
The database launched in 2018 and this past year
we added more than 180 stories, which can be searched by date, theme, or state.
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White supremacists destroyed a thriving Black community in Oklahoma. This is one of countless examples of the historical pattern of successful Black communities being attacked through violence and/or undermined through extra-legal means.
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Democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was deposed in a CIA-sponsored coup to protect the profits of the United Fruit Company. Arbenz was replaced by decades of brutal U.S.-backed regimes who committed widespread torture and genocide.
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Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst were executed for their role in urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government.
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Harriet Tubman planned and guided a significant armed raid (becoming the first woman to do so in the Civil War) against Confederate forces, supply depots, and plantations along the Combahee River in coastal South Carolina. On this day, she helped nearly 800 people escape to freedom.
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The earliest of the 20th century's school desegregation court cases occurred in the Southwest in the 1930s. School officials in Mexican-American communities, such as Lemon Grove, forced Mexican and Mexican-American children to attend substandard schools.
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Democratically elected prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, was executed by firing squad with the assistance of the governments of Belgium and the United States, just six months after taking office.
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At the Jackson, Mississippi, Woolworth lunch counter, civil rights activists carried out a sit-in protest against white supremacist segregation. The protestors endured three hours of insults and attacks by an increasingly violent white mob.
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The National Guard fired on the camps of striking Colorado coal miners, killing eleven children and two adults.
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A pre-dawn attack on Mystic Fort (present-day Connecticut) that left 500 adults and children of the Pequot tribe dead, the Pequot Massacre was the first defeat of the Pequot people by the English in the Pequot War, a three-year war instigated by the Puritans to seize the tribe's traditional land.
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Striking miners and others were deported from Bisbee, Arizona. The men were forced on to cattle cars provided by the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad.
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The U.S Treasury brought 281 Africans, many of them children, to Savannah aboard
The Antelope. Though entitled to freedom by the law of the day, the Africans were imprisoned for seven years while a legal battle ensued.
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Yuri Kochiyama (May 19, 1921 - June 1, 2014) devoted her life to social justice and human rights movements, including the anti-war movement, reparations for Japanese-American internees, and the rights of political prisoners.
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Barbara Johns led her classmates in a strike to protest the substandard conditions at Robert Russa Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia. The protest led to a court case that became one of five cases that the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed in
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
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Before dawn, 78 Indians landed on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay and occupied the island. They issued a proclamation, "We Hold the Rock," and organized themselves immediately, electing a council and giving everyone a job. Everyone on the island voted on all major decisions.
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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson exposed the devastating impact of widespread and uncontrolled pesticide use on the environment. It was an instant bestseller and the most talked about book in decades.
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