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Equal Justice Initiative

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We work to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial injustice. Led by Bryan Stevenson. Creators of the @legacysites #justmercy
Montgomery, AL
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    On this day in 1910, the Texas House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution encouraging U.S. senators and congressmen to work toward repealing the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted citizenship to Black people born in the U.S.
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    September 8th, 1910 | A History of Racial Injustice
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    Sep 7
    On this day in 1913, eight Black men at a Texas prison farm suffocated after they were placed in an underground cell as punishment for not picking cotton fast enough.
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    September 7th, 1913 | A History of Racial Injustice
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    Sep 6
    On this day in 1963, local merchants in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, began enforcing an ordinance that denied service to all members of the U.S. military, regardless of their race, to protest integration.
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    September 6th, 1963 | A History of Racial Injustice
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    Sep 5
    On this day in 1912, a white mob in Princeton, West Virginia, lynched an innocent Black man named Robert Johnson after he was wrongly accused of assaulting a white girl.
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    September 5th, 1912 | A History of Racial Injustice
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