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A searchable database of fatal police shootings in the U.S. since 2015, is maintained by the Washington Post. The list can be filtered by state, city, police department, year of shooting, police body cam footage, victim name, age, race, gender, whether the victim was armed or unarmed, any mental illness, or fleeing the scene.
Marie Van Brittan Brown (October 30, 1922 – February 2, 1999) was an American nurse and innovator. In 1966, she invented a video home security system [1] along with her husband Albert Brown, an electronics technician. [2] That same year they applied for a patent for their security system. It was granted three years later in 1969.
Autherine Juanita Lucy (October 5, 1929 – March 2, 2022) was an American activist who was the first African-American student to attend the University of Alabama, in 1956. Her expulsion from the institution later that year led to the university's President Oliver Carmichael 's resignation.
The sit-in movement, sit-in campaign, or student sit-in movement, was a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960, led by students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical Institute (A&T). [1] The sit-in movement employed the tactic of nonviolent direct action and was a pivotal event during the Civil Rights ...
Investigators examined Johnson's laptop, journal, and cell phone, along with 170 hours of body camera footage. [31] [127] However, there were concerns about the resolution quality of some of the 90 cameras installed in downtown Dallas, which could have recorded parts of the shooting essential to the investigation.
Candia-Bailey, 49, died by suicide in Illinois. Her mother, Veronica Candia, and husband Anthony Bailey, previously told NBC News that the Missouri university’s president John Moseley terminated ...
The students were subject to a possible $500 fine and six months of jail. That following day, on March 28, the nine students were released on one-thousand dollar bond. Protests. The day after the Read-In, hundreds of students from Jackson State Teachers College picketed the arrest of the Tougaloo Nine prior to their release.
1855–1905. Inventor. Folding "cabinet-bed", forerunner of the Murphy bed; first African-American woman to receive a patent in the United States. [81] [82] [83] Grant, George F. 1846–1910. Dentist, professor. The first African-American professor at Harvard, Boston dentist, and inventor of a wooden golf tee .