{"slug": "southern-united-states", "label": "Southern United States", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49042", "qid": "Q49042", "description": "cultural region in the southeastern and south-central United States", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1865, 2021], "span_label": ["1865 CE", "2021 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["American South"], "related": [{"slug": "reconstruction-era", "label": "Reconstruction era", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ku-klux-klan", "label": "Ku Klux Klan", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "December 24", "text": "December 24 – Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, to resist Reconstruction and intimidate carpetbaggers and scalawags, as well as to repress the freedpeople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361545898#December", "title": "1865", "revid": 1361545898, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1877, "year_label": "1877 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24 – The Compromise of 1877 forces federal troops to withdraw from the Southern United States. This is the latest date disputed by historians when the Reconstruction Era ended and when the Gilded Age started.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370239819#April", "title": "1877", "revid": 1370239819, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1947, "year_label": "1947 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – The Journey of Reconciliation in the Southern United States begins, organized by the Congress of Racial Equality.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371901060#April", "title": "1947", "revid": 1371901060, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 1", "text": "February 1 – Greensboro sit-ins: In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar non-violent protests throughout the Southern United States, and six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same counter.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#February", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – The Woolworth Company's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, the location of a sit-in that has sparked demonstrations by Negroes across the Southern United States, serves a meal to its first black customer.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#July", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2011, "year_label": "2011 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "April 25", "text": "April 25–28 – The 2011 Super Outbreak forms in the Southern, Midwest and Eastern United States with a tornado count of 362; killing 324 and injuring over 2,200.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372940525#April", "title": "2011", "revid": 1372940525, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2021, "year_label": "2021 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "December 10", "text": "December 10–December 11 – A late season tornado outbreak occurs in the Southern and Midwestern United States, causing major damage and killing at least 94 people. One of the longest-tracked tornadoes in history occurred, which impacted western Kentucky, particularly Mayfield.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372689859#December", "title": "2021", "revid": 1372689859, "section": "Events › December"}}]}