Sandy Smith, November 3, 1979

Sandy Smith (sometimes spelled "Sandi" or "Sandra") was a nurse and union organizer for textile workers at Cone Mills Textile Plant who suffered harsh conditions and low wages in Greensboro, North Carolina. She had been active in the Civil Rights Movement having lead a march to free the Wilmington Ten, was President of the student body of Bennett College which is one of only two remaining all female colleges that are HBCUs (Historical Black Colleges and Universities), and was a founding member of the Student Organization for Black Unity at Bennett College. She along with five other activists was gunned down at the infamous Greensboro Massacre on November 3, 1979 after they were attacked by the Klu Klux Klan and Neo Nazis at the Morningside Homes projects. Of the Klansmen and Neo Nazis who were charged with murder, all were acquitted by all white juries. Despite a $350,000 dollar lawsuit by the victims of the massacre, only one victim received payment from the Klan and the American Neo Nazi Party.

Unidentified Lynching Victim, Early 1900s

A black man was lynched in Texas, but the location is unknown.

Marc Fitzsimmons, July 2, 1998

Marc Fitzsimmons was a talented and gifted young man who had graduated from highschool early at the age of 15 and was immediately accepted into UCLA when he was only 16. Fitzsimmons had no prior run ins or problems with police, but in a sad twist of mistaken identity he was killed by Los Angeles Police Department commonly referred to as LAPD on July 2, 1998 in South Central Los Angeles. His mother Donna Dymally never got to see his body since he was cremated without her knowledge. LAPD contended that they had shot the right man after an assault was reported and they apprehended their suspect who was lunging at them with a knife. However, witnesses reported that the suspect LAPD sought was older and larger than Fitzsimmons and wore different clothing at the time of the attack on the assault victim.

Patrick Bailey, October 30, 1997

On October 30, 1997, 22-year-old aspiring stockbroker Patrick Bailey of Brooklyn was shot to death by Street Crime Unit Officer Kenneth Boss, one of the four officers who were later acquitted in the Amadou Diallo trial. 40 minutes transpired before ambulance arrived, but by then Bailey had bled to death.

Malik Jones, April 14, 1997

Malik Jones was shot to death by Officer Robert Flodquist, a member of the East Haven Police, on April 14, 1997. Flodquist had been "racial profiling" Jones and his passenger Samuel Cruz and had trailed them for a distance. Both Jones and Cruz were unarmed.

Archie Elliott, June 18, 1993

Archie Elliott was a 24-year-old college student paying his way through school by working construction jobs. While driving home from work he was stopped by police and ordered to take a field sobriety test which he failed. Despite being handcuffed and in the front seat of the police car, police shot him to death after they said he pointed a revolver at them. The revolver was never tested for fingerprints and the crime scene was tampered with by Officers Jason Leavitt of the District Heights Police Department and Wayne Cheney of the Prince George's Police Department.

Keisha Morgan, February 22, 2008

25-year-old Keisha Morgan was found unresponsive in her barracks in Baghdad by her roommate. She was not able to be resuscitated and died under mysterious circumstances. Morgan had told her mother shortly before she died that she believe a fellow soldier had put a date rape drug in her drink. A soldier who had first hand knowledge of details in her case said that there were very "extenuating circumstances" in her case that were not released to the media. It was not an accident nor a suicide.