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1997 Chicago Whites Sox retire Carlton Fisk's number, 72
1989 Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black 1985 South Africa will repeal sex and marriage laws against whites and non-whites 1971 Jo Etha Collier, young black woman killed by 3 whites in Drew Miss 1964 Blacks and Whites riot over racial segregation in St. Augustine 1958 Ernest Green and 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS 1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites 1956 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites 1949 St. Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3 1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana schools to protest integration 1919 Chicago race riot, 15 whites and 23 blacks killed, 500 injured 1918 Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites and 1 black killed) 1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks and 2 whites killed) 1917 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan vs. Warley) strikes down Lousiville Kentucky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas 1917 Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks and 11 whites killed) 1905 Whites win right to vote in South Africa 1899 Battle at Ladysmith Natal: Boers beat Lieutenant-General Whites army 1876 Race riot at Cainhoy South Carolina (5 whites and 1 black killed) 1838 John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82 1833 Curaeao census: 2,602 whites, 6,531 free people and 5,894 slaves 1832 Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisconsin 1804 Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti 1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for bounty 1622 1st Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites Jamestown, Virginia; 347 slain |
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