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World War II
World War II begins, a time where Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party killed 11 million people (6 million jewish people). -
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Famous Hate Crimes in History
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Murder of Emett Till
Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen year old African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi after reportedly flirting with a white woman. He was murdered by Roy Bryant and his half-brother J. W. Milam -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, marked a turning point in the United States 1960s Civil Rights Movement. -
Murder of Robert Hillsborough
Robert Hillsborough was a gay man who was stabbed to death by a nineteen year old due to the hatred of Hillsborough's sexuality. -
Murder of Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk was an American politician who became the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was shot by supervisor Dan White and died. -
Murder of Charles Howard
Charles Howard was an American homosexual murder victim in Bangor, Maine in 1984. He was murdered by a group of teenage boys. -
Murder of James Zappalorti
James Zappalorti, a disabled veteran of the Vietnam War, was the victim of a highly publicized, fatal gay-bashing attack on Staten Island, New York. -
Death of Brandon Teena
Brandon Teena was an American trans man who was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska. His life and death were the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film Boys Don't Cry -
Murder of Matthew Shepard
Matthew Shepard was a gay American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured and left to die near Laramie, Wyoming on the night of October 6, 1998 because of his sexuality. -
Death of J.R. Warren
July 4, 2000, J.R. Warren, a 26-year old African American, gay man was attacked by two 17-year old boys who savagely beat him and then drove back and forth over him until he was dead. -
Death of Gwen Araujo
Gwen Araujo, was an American teenage trans woman who was murdered in Newark, California. She was killed by four men, two of whom she had allegedly been sexually intimate with, who beat and strangled her after discovering she was transgender. -
Jamaican
In 2005, a Jamaican mob chased a man they believed to be gay. The man jumped into the water to escape the mob and drowned. -
Burning of Home
In November, 2008, arsonists burned the home of openly gay Melvin Whistlehunt. Investigators found anti-gay messages spray painted on the back of the house. -
Murder of Duanna Johnson
Duanna Johnson was beaten by a police officer in Memphis, TN. The police were reportedly calling Duanna (a transgendered woman) a “faggot” and “he-she”. Shortly after threatening a lawsuit against the police department, Duanna was shot by three “unknown assailants”. -
Jewish Community Center Shooting
On April 13, 2014 Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. killed a teenage boy and his grandfather outside of a Jewsih Community Center in Overland Park, KS. Miller was a member of a neo-nazi party and former political candidate.
