Today in History: June 7, James Byrd Jr. killed in hate crime
At present is Saturday June the th day of There are days left in the year This day in history On June in a crime that shocked the nation and led to stronger state and federal hate crime laws James Byrd Jr a -year-old Black man was hooked by a chain to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper Texas Two white men were later sentenced to death and executed for the crime a third was sentenced to life in prison Also on this date In Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Continental Congress stating that these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent States Related Articles Photographer s Notebook The Final Frame Supreme Court allows DOGE association to access Social Safety systems with records on millions of Americans US charges Kilmar Abrego Garcia with transporting people who were in the country illegally US jobs summary Hiring slows amid uncertainty over economic system Elon Musk threatens to withdraw SpaceX capsule Here s what that would mean for NASA In Homer Plessy a Creole of color was arrested for refusing to leave a whites-only car of the East Louisiana Railroad Ruling on his situation Plessy v Ferguson the U S Supreme Court upheld separate but equal racial segregation a concept it renounced in In the sovereign state of Vatican City formally came into existence as the Italian Parliament ratified the Lateran Treaty in Rome In the Battle of Midway ended in a decisive success for American naval forces over Imperial Japan marking a turning point in the Pacific War In the U S Supreme Court in Griswold v Connecticut struck down - a Connecticut law used to prosecute a Planned Parenthood clinic in New Haven for providing contraceptives to married couples In New York magazine published an article by journalist Nik Cohn entitled The Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night which inspired the film Saturday Night Fever which in turn sparked a nationwide disco craze Cohn admitted in that the article was certainly a work of fiction In Texas became the first state to recognize Juneteenth as an official state holiday Juneteenth became a federal holiday in In Graceland Elvis Presley s Memphis mansion was opened to the citizens as a tourist destination five years after Presley s death In Abu Musab al-Zarqawi the founder of al-Qaida in Iraq was killed by a U S airstrike on his safe house In Maggie Murdaugh and her son Paul Murdaugh from a prominent South Carolina legal family were detected shot and killed on their family s property Alex Murdaugh Maggie s husband and Paul s father would be uncovered guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison Nowadays s Birthdays Filmmaker James Ivory is Singer Tom Jones is Actor Liam Neeson is Author Orhan Pamuk is Author Louise Erdrich is Music producer L A Reid is Musician Juan Luis Guerra is Former Vice President Mike Pence is Rock musician-TV host Dave Navarro is Sen Ben Ray Luj n D-N M is Actor Karl Urban is TV personality Bear Grylls is Basketball Hall of Famer Allen Iverson is Actor-comedian Bill Hader is Actor Michael Cera is Rapper Iggy Azalea is Actor-model Emily Ratajkowski is NFL running back Christian McCaffrey is
