1911

146 people, mostly young female immigrants, were killed when a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. garment factory in New York.

1931

In the so-called Scottsboro Boys case, nine young Black men were taken off a train in Alabama and accused of raping two White women.

1965

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 people to the Alabama state Capitol in Montgomery, completing a five-day march from Selma to protest the denial of voting rights to Black Americans.