TSDS Timeline Project by Azad, Shekh Ayesha M

June 1956

smazad — 2024-05-15 13:34:12 UTC

Anthony Ray Hinton was born

1985

smazad — 2024-05-17 20:08:51 UTC

Hinton was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. He was framed for the three murders that he had no idea of whatsoever.

November 2021

smazad — 2024-05-17 20:22:09 UTC

I moved back to the U.S. after 13 years

May 2008

smazad — 2024-05-17 20:32:00 UTC

I was born!

October 2008

smazad — 2024-05-17 20:56:05 UTC

Moved to Philippines

December, 1955

smazad — 2024-05-21 16:16:14 UTC

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat which resulted into a year-long Montgomery bus boycott.

May 1963

smazad — 2024-05-21 16:21:36 UTC

The “Children’s Crusade”: As a demonstration against segregation, More than a thousand Black school children marched through Birmingham. The law enforcements brought water hoses, police dogs, and arrested the young demonstrators.

February 1965

smazad — 2024-05-21 16:22:39 UTC

Religious leader Malcolm X was assassinated.

September 2002

smazad — 2024-05-21 16:25:16 UTC

Hinton got news of his mother’s death in death row which made him develop suicidal thoughts.

2002

smazad — 2024-05-21 16:26:43 UTC

“God’s Best Lawyer”, Bryan Stevenson, became Anthony’s new lawyer.

August 1965

smazad — 2024-05-21 16:29:23 UTC

Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law. After the Civil War, it outlawed the discriminatory voting practices in many southern states.

March 1965

smazad — 2024-05-21 16:34:35 UTC

Protesting against Black voter suppression, around 600 civil rights marchers walked the Selma to Montgomery March and were brutally attacked. This is what we know as The Bloody Sunday.

June 2006

smazad — 2024-05-22 00:56:46 UTC

Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals denied Hinton's appeal.

2019-2021

smazad — 2024-05-22 02:53:18 UTC

The COVID-19 spread and pandemic started. We had to wear masks and some places were off limits for minors. However, I did get to go some places.

November 2015

smazad — 2024-05-22 03:03:25 UTC

I entered and won 10th place as a Grand finalist on the Iloilo PRISAA Competition in Philippines. I did a declamation and to this day I still remember my first few lines.

August 1987

smazad — 2024-05-22 03:07:35 UTC

For the first time in his 29 years, Hinton heard the Yellow Mama and smelled the scent of burning flesh that made him sick to the stomach.

April 2015

smazad — 2024-05-22 03:11:48 UTC

After spending 30 years of his life in death row, he was exonerated. All charges were dropped after Laura Petro overturned his conviction.

2023-2024

smazad — 2024-05-22 03:33:03 UTC

I’ve joined school clubs and have made even more friends compared to when i first got here.