Joseph Hayne Rainey gained fame during Reconstruction as the first Black person to serve in the United states House of Representatives. He was born into slavery on this day in 1832 in South Carolina.
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On this day in 1964, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner went missing near Philadelphia, Mississippi. They were civil rights workers who had been registering Black people to vote. Their bodies were discovered two months later in an earthen dam; they had been executed by the local Ku Klux Klan, with complicity by the Neshoba County Sheriff’s Office, and Philadelphia, Mississippi Police department.
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