On this day in 1863, the Richmond Bread Riot, the largest of several bread riots that took place in the Confederacy, began when thousands of hungry people began attacking government warehouses and stores, chanting "Bread or Blood!"

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, born on this day in 1950, is a prison abolitionist and scholar who founded the field of "carceral geography", the study of the relationships across space and political economy that define modern incarceration.