Not an April Fool's joke On this day 218 years ago, the state of Ohio and its all-white state legislature amended "An Act to Regulate Black and Mulatto Persons" to bar Black Americans from testifying in court if one of the parties was white It also required Black American citizens to register with the State with proof of freedom to be able to get work. They fined companies that hired "unregistered" Black American citizens and On this day 60 years ago, Unita Blackwell files a civil rights lawsuit against the Issaquena Board of Education for violating the 1st amendment right of 300+ students by expelling them for wearing "freedom" buttons from SNCC. They lost the case and responded by creating Freedom Schools for the expelled students. Unita Blackwell would go on to become the first Freedmen woman to be elected mayor in Mississippi in 1976 in Mayersville Documented proof of the systemic targeting that republicans claim doesn't exist and Documented proof of the systemic targeting that democrats claim happens to all "POC"