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June 10| Date | Type | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1897 |  The Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW), an African-American fraternal order modeled on the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is founded in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the early 21st century, it has 500,000 members and 1500 lodges in the world. Learn more. | |
| 1954 |  Governors and representatives from 12 Southern states meet in Richmond, Virginia, and resolve to defiantly resist the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Released less than a month earlier, the Brown decision struck down racial segregation laws—prevalent in the South—that required separate public schools for Black and white children. After a six-hour meeting, representatives from all but three of the 12 states present agreed that they would work to resist the desegregation ruling. The campaign of massive resistance to integration in the South discussed at this meeting was largely successful. By 1960, only 98 of Arkansas’s 104,000 Black students attended desegregated schools; as did 34 of 302,000 in North Carolina; 169 of 146,000 in Tennessee; and 103 of 203,000 in Virginia. In the five Deep South states, every single one of 1.4 million Black schoolchildren attended segregated schools until the fall of 1960. By the start of the 1964-65 school year, less than 3% of the South’s Black children attended school with white students, and in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina that number remained substantially below 1%. Learn more. | |
| 1964 |  The United States Senate breaks the 75-day Southern Filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by a vote of 71-29, leading to the bill's passage. This was the first time in history the Senate imposed cloture on (i.e., broke a filibuster of) any civil rights legislation. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, with public accommodation and fair employment sections, was signed by President Johnson on July 2. Throughout the existence of the filibuster (created by the Senate accidentally and unintentionally in the 19th century) it has been used nearly exclusively to block civil rights and voting rights legislation. Learn more. |
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