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[https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/2 by EJI 2/5/1963] | [https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/2 by EJI 2/5/1963] | ||
On May 2, 1963, more than 1,000 Black children peacefully protested racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the Children's Crusade, beginning a movement that sparked widely publicized police brutality that shocked the nation and spurred major civil rights advances. | On May 2, 1963, more than 1,000 Black children peacefully protested racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the Children's Crusade, beginning a movement that sparked widely publicized police brutality that shocked the nation and spurred major civil rights advances. | ||
=====New Study Shows Impact of Lynching History on Life Expectancy Today===== | |||
[https://eji.org/news/new-study-shows-impact-of-lynching-history-on-life-expectancy-today/ by EJI 10/05/21] | |||
A new study from researchers at the University of South Florida found that counties in the South with the highest number of racial terror lynchings have the lowest life expectancy. Conversely, counties with no recorded history of lynchings have the highest life expectancy rate. | |||
