Twenty-three-year-old Sean Elijah Bell, the victim of a violent police shooting in 2006, was born on May 18, 1983, to William and Valerie Bell. As a child, Bell was interested in acting and played baseball. According to Bell’s fiancée, Nicole Poultre, in an interview with … Read MoreSean Elijah Bell (1983-2006)
The Jackson State Killings took place at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University) on May 15, 1970, in Jackson, Mississippi. Around midnight on May 14, city and state police confronted a group of students and opened fire on them, killing two students and injuring … Read MoreThe Jackson State Killings, 1970
Abner Louima, an activist against police brutality, is unfortunately best known for being brutalized, sexually assaulted, and savagely beaten by New York Police Department officers in 1997. Louima was born in 1966 in Thomassin, Haiti, the oldest of his parents’ four children. His father worked … Read MoreAbner Louima (1966- )
The Algiers Motel Incident occurred in Detroit, Michigan on July 25, 1967, two days after the Detroit Race Riot began. The incident started when Army National Guardsman Ted Thomas reported hearing gunshots at the Algiers Motel Annex. Detroit Police, Michigan State Police, and other National … Read MoreAlgiers Motel Incident (1967)
Lamar Smith, a voting rights activist and veteran, was a martyr in the fight for civil rights. Smith was born in March 1892 to Levi Smith and Harriet Humphrey in Lincoln County, Mississippi; however, there is little information concerning his early life. Smith served in … Read MoreLamar Smith (1892-1955)
Tawana Brawley is an African American woman from Wappinger’s Falls, New York, who became known when she was 15 years old in 1987 for wrongly accusing four white men of brutally raping her in Dutchess County. On November 28, 1987, Brawley, who had been missing … Read MoreTawana Glenda Brawley (1972- )
Oscar Juliuss Grant III was a resident of Oakland, California, and unfortunately, is best known for being killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer in the early hours of New Year’s Day in 2009. Grant was born to Oscar Grant Jr. and … Read MoreOscar Juliuss Grant, III (1986-2009)
Amadou Diallo was a Guinean immigrant who lived in Manhattan, New York, and is unfortunately best known for being killed by New York City police after he was fired upon forty-one times outside his place of residence. Diallo was born on September 2, 1976, in … Read MoreAmadou Diallo (1976-1999)
On July 12, 2013, 17-year-old Deion Fludd passed away as a result of complications from blunt trauma injuries after being attacked by New York Police Department (NYPD) officers. Raised in the Red Hooks projects of Brooklyn, New York, Deion was the middle child of five. His parents … Read MoreDeion Fludd (1996-2013)
1140 Royal Street, New Orleans, Site of the LaLaurie “Image Ownership: Public Domain” The LaLaurie Mansion, located at 1140 Royal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, is famous as the site of the torture and murder of a number of enslaved people owned by Marie Delphine Macarty … Read MoreThe LaLaurie Mansion 1832
