A U.S. History of Racial Injustice Daily Calendar from the EJI

4WardEverUK • 24 December 2025

source: Equal Justice Initiative

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Learn more about the history of racial injustice by checking out the Equal Justice Initiative's online calendar, which features a different historical event each day.


Included in the December calendar is the confederate veterans establishment of the Ku Klux Klan in 1865.

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Help confront our history to overcome racial inequality.

About the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI):

The EJI is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.


Founded in 1989 by Bryan Stevenson, a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer and bestselling author of Just Mercy, EJI is a private, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides legal representation to people who have been illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced, or abused in state jails and prisons.


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