| 1959-09-14 | Landrum-Griffin Act Imposes Federal Restrictions on Union Internal Operations
3 src U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Labor · Labor unions |
| confirmed |
| 1959-06-26 | Prince Edward County Virginia Closes Entire Public School System for Five Years Rather Than Integrate
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1959-06-02 | Prince Edward County Virginia Closes All Public Schools for Five Years Rather Than Integrate
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1959-05-29 | Congress Passes NSA Act of 1959 (P.L. 86-36) Exempting NSA From Disclosure of Its Own Functions
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · National Security Agency · Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1959-01-01 | Congress Holds 25 Hearings on Pentagon Revolving Door, General Bradley Testifies Against Contractor Influence
3 src U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Defense · Defense contractors |
| confirmed |
| 1958-12-05 | NAM Executive VP Charles Sligh Calls for Business Political Mobilization to Build Conservative Coalition
3 src National Association of Manufacturers | | confirmed |
| 1958-11-04 | AFL-CIO Defeats Right-to-Work Campaigns in Five of Six States, Major Democratic Resistance Victory
3 src AFL-CIO · National Right to Work Committee | | confirmed |
| 1958-01-01 | CIA Funding Reaches 53.5% of European Movement Budget via ACUE: Intelligence-Driven Supranational Integration
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles · William Donovan |
| confirmed |
| 1958-01-01 | John M. Olin Foundation Begins Eight-Year Operation as Secret CIA Money Laundering Bank
5 src John M. Olin Foundation · Central Intelligence Agency · John M. Olin |
| confirmed |
| 1957-09-24 | Eisenhower Sends Federal Troops to Little Rock After Governor Uses National Guard Against Integration
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower | | confirmed |
| 1957-09-09 | Civil Rights Act of 1957: First Federal Voting Rights Law Since Reconstruction Passes Despite Southern Filibuster
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · Lyndon B. Johnson · Strom Thurmond · Richard Russell · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1957-07-08 | Hoover Formalizes "Official and Confidential" File System, Institutionalizing Personal Blackmail Infrastructure
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1957-06-17 | Yates v. United States Limits Smith Act Prosecutions, Supreme Court Begins Retreat from McCarthyism
6 src Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · Communist Party USA · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 1957-06-01 | MKULTRA Subproject 68 Funds Ewen Cameron Psychic Driving Experiments at McGill
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Sidney Gottlieb | | confirmed |
| 1957-03-01 | Indiana Passes Right-to-Work Law, So Unpopular It's Repealed Within Eight Years
3 src Republican Party · Democratic Party · National Right to Work Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1956-11-13 | Supreme Court Affirms Montgomery Bus Segregation Unconstitutional, Boycott Ends in Victory
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund | | confirmed |
| 1956-09-21 | Virginia Enacts Massive Resistance Laws Authorizing School Closures to Prevent Integration
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1956-08-28 | FBI Director Hoover Launches COINTELPRO to Target Communist Party and Domestic Dissent
6 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Communist Party USA |
| confirmed |
| 1956-06-29 | Federal-Aid Highway Act Creates Interstate System, Enables Destruction of Black Urban Neighborhoods
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · General Motors · American Petroleum Institute |
| confirmed |
| 1956-03-29 | Mississippi Creates State Sovereignty Commission for Civil Rights Surveillance and Segregationist Funding
3 src White Citizens' Councils | | confirmed |
| 1956-03-12 | Southern Manifesto Signed by 101 Congressmen Pledging Resistance to School Integration
6 src Strom Thurmond | | confirmed |
| 1956-02-06 | University of Alabama Expels Autherine Lucy After White Mob Violence, First Black Student Barred
3 src NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall · Ku Klux Klan | | confirmed |
| 1956-01-01 | White Citizens Councils Reach Peak Membership of 300,000 Through Business Elite Coordination
3 src White Citizens' Councils | | confirmed |
| 1955-12-05 | AFL-CIO Merger Consolidates Labor Movement, But Cements Conservative Leadership
3 src Walter Reuther · American Federation of Labor · Congress of Industrial Organizations · AFL-CIO | | confirmed |
| 1955-12-01 | Rosa Parks Arrested for Refusing to Give Up Bus Seat Sparking Montgomery Bus Boycott
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. | | confirmed |
| 1955-10-01 | CIA Operation Midnight Climax Begins Dosing Unwitting Americans with LSD in San Francisco Safe House
3 src Sidney Gottlieb · Central Intelligence Agency | | confirmed |
| 1955-08-28 | Emmett Till Murdered in Mississippi After Accusation from White Woman
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1955-05-31 | Brown II Orders Desegregation with "All Deliberate Speed," Enabling Decade of Resistance
3 src Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall |
| confirmed |
| 1955-05-01 | Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group: CIA Officers Operate Under Academic Cover in Saigon
3 src Michigan State University · CIA |
| confirmed |
| 1955-01-01 | National Right to Work Committee Founded to Coordinate Anti-Union Corporate Lobbying
3 src National Right to Work Committee · Corporate funders |
| confirmed |
| 1954-12-02 | Senate Votes 67-22 to Censure Joseph McCarthy Ending Four Years of Terror
3 src Joseph McCarthy | | confirmed |
| 1954-09-01 | Communist Control Act Bans Party Members from Union Leadership, Weaponizing Anti-Communism Against Labor
3 src U.S. Congress · Dwight D. Eisenhower · House Un-American Activities Committee · American Federation of Labor · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1954-08-02 | Housing Act of 1954 Expands Urban Renewal, Intensifies Destruction of Black Communities
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1954-07-11 | White Citizens' Councils Founded With Business Elite Backing to Resist Integration
4 src White Citizens' Councils | | confirmed |
| 1954-07-11 | White Citizens' Councils Pioneer Economic Collective Punishment in Yazoo City Mississippi | | |
| 1954-06-27 | CIA Operation PBSUCCESS Overthrows Guatemalan Democracy, Protects United Fruit Company Interests
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles · Edward Bernays |
| confirmed |
| 1954-06-17 | Operation Wetback Mass Deportation Uses Military Tactics, Human Rights Violations
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · Immigration and Naturalization Service |
| confirmed |
| 1954-06-17 | Operation Wetback: Mass Deportation Campaign Removes Over One Million Ethnic Mexicans | | |
| 1954-06-09 | Joseph Welch Confronts McCarthy with Have You No Sense of Decency in Army Hearings
3 src Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn | | confirmed |
| 1954-05-17 | Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision Declares School Segregation Unconstitutional
3 src Earl Warren · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 1954-04-22 | Army-McCarthy Hearings Begin as Military Charges Senator with Improper Pressure for Aide
3 src Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn · U.S. Army · Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations | | confirmed |
| 1954-04-12 | AEC Security Hearing Against Oppenheimer Begins Targeting Manhattan Project Director
3 src J. Edgar Hoover | | confirmed |
| 1954-02-26 | Bricker Amendment Fails by One Vote, Conservative Attempt to Limit Treaty Power Defeated
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · American Bar Association · U.S. Senate · American Medical Association · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1954-01-01 | Eisenhower Convenes Business Leaders to Create Public Affairs Council for Political Mobilization
8 src Dwight D. Eisenhower | | confirmed |
| 1954-01-01 | Union Membership Reaches Peak of 35% of Workforce, Enabling Shared Prosperity
2 src American workers · AFL-CIO · United Auto Workers · United Steelworkers | | confirmed |
| 1953-10-30 | Eisenhower Approves New Look Defense Policy - Cuts Military Budget by One-Third Despite Pentagon Resistance
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · John Foster Dulles | | confirmed |
| 1953-08-19 | CIA Operation Ajax Overthrows Democratic Iranian Government, Installs Shah Dictatorship
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles |
| confirmed |
| 1953-08-13 | Eisenhower Executive Order 10479 Creates Committee on Government Contracts, Weak Anti-Discrimination Enforcement
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · Richard Nixon · NAACP | | confirmed |
| 1953-06-19 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed at Sing Sing, Cold War's Most Controversial Death Penalty Case
3 src Roy Cohn · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| confirmed |
| 1953-04-16 | Eisenhower's "Chance for Peace" Speech - Every Gun Made Is a Theft From Those Who Hunger
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower | | confirmed |
| 1953-04-13 | CIA MKULTRA Project Officially Begins
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · Sidney Gottlieb | | confirmed |
| 1953-02-09 | Roy Cohn Establishes Blackmail and Intimidation Network
4 src Roy Cohn · Joseph McCarthy · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1953-01-28 | Charles Wilson Confirmed Defense Secretary After "Good for General Motors" Controversy Reveals Corporate-State Fusion
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · General Motors · Senate Armed Services Committee · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1953-01-01 | FCC Adopts Seven-Station Rule Limiting Broadcast Ownership to Prevent Media Monopoly and Ensure Viewpoint Diversity
9 src Federal Communications Commission | | confirmed |
| 1953-01-01 | Operation Mockingbird: CIA Cultivates Hundreds of Journalists at Major American Outlets
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles |
| confirmed |
| 1952-11-04 | Truman Creates National Security Agency by Classified Directive, Existence Classified for 23 Years
3 src Harry S. Truman · National Security Agency · Armed Forces Security Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1952-06-27 | McCarran-Walter Act Imposes Racialized Immigration Quotas Over Truman Veto - 85% for Europeans
3 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1952-06-02 | Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer: Supreme Court Strikes Steel Seizure; Jackson Concurrence Becomes Canonical Executive-Power Framework
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Hugo Black · Harry S. Truman · Fred Vinson |
| confirmed |
| 1952-04-08 | Truman Issues Executive Order 10340 Seizing Nation's Steel Mills; Sets Up Steel Seizure Case
3 src Harry S. Truman · Philip Murray | | confirmed |
| 1952-01-01 | Hollywood Blacklist Reaches Peak with Over 300 Industry Professionals Banned
3 src House Un-American Activities Committee · American Legion · Federal Bureau of Investigation · J. Edgar Hoover |
| confirmed |
| 1951-12-06 | Truman Commissions Brownell Committee to Investigate AFSA Failure, Blueprint for NSA Created
3 src Harry S. Truman · Armed Forces Security Agency · National Security Council |
| confirmed |
| 1951-08-01 | Electric Boat Awarded Contract for First Nuclear Submarine USS Nautilus, Launching General Dynamics
3 src U.S. Navy | | confirmed |
| 1951-06-04 | Dennis v. United States Supreme Court Upholds Smith Act Convictions, Criminalizes Political Advocacy
3 src Fred Vinson · U.S. Supreme Court · Communist Party USA · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1951-04-01 | Hollywood Ten Released from Prison but Remain Blacklisted, Industry Persecution Continues
3 src House Un-American Activities Committee | | confirmed |
| 1951-03-29 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Convicted of Espionage in Controversial Red Scare Trial
3 src Roy Cohn | | confirmed |
| 1951-03-12 | Kefauver Committee Televised Hearings Draw 30 Million Viewers - Organized Crime Exposed
3 src Estes Kefauver · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1951-01-01 | CIA Begins Systematic University Funding Through Front Foundations: Academic Capture at Scale
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles · Michigan State University |
| confirmed |
| 1950-12-29 | Celler-Kefauver Act Closes Merger Loopholes, Strengthens Government Power to Block Anticompetitive Consolidation
4 src U.S. Congress · Emanuel Celler · Estes Kefauver · Harry Truman · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1950-12-16 | Truman Proclaims National Emergency for Korean War: Declaration Remains Legally Operative for 26 Years
2 src Harry S. Truman · Dean Acheson | | confirmed |
| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Codifies Red-Scare Surveillance Apparatus
3 src Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Communist Party USA |
| confirmed |
| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Requires Communist Registration
3 src Harry Truman · U.S. Congress · House Un-American Activities Committee · Department of Justice · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1950-09-08 | Defense Production Act Institutionalizes Korean War Industrial Mobilization, Defense Budget Quadruples to $50 Billion
3 src Harry Truman · Boeing · Lockheed · General Electric · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1950-09-01 | State Loyalty Oaths Spread as California Passes Levering Act, Requires Public Employee Pledges
3 src California Legislature · Earl Warren · American Civil Liberties Union |
| confirmed |
| 1950-08-23 | CIA Secretly Purchases Civil Air Transport, Creating Template for Intelligence Front Companies
2 src Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1950-08-01 | State Department Revokes Paul Robeson Passport for Political Views and Soviet Support
3 src State Department · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1950-06-27 | Truman Commits U.S. Forces to Korean War by Executive Action Alone, Establishing 'Police Action' Precedent
3 src Harry S. Truman · Dean Acheson · Robert Taft · U.S. Congress · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1950-06-26 | Congress for Cultural Freedom Founded with CIA Money: Intellectual Capture Across 35 Countries
3 src CIA |
| confirmed |
| 1950-06-22 | Red Channels Published, Launching Broadcasting Blacklist and Corporate "Smear and Clear" Racket
3 src NBC · CBS |
| confirmed |
| 1950-06-01 | Margaret Chase Smith Delivers Declaration of Conscience Against McCarthy Witch Hunt
3 src Joseph McCarthy | | confirmed |
| 1950-05-23 | Treaty of Detroit - GM-UAW Contract Establishes Labor Containment Model
3 src General Motors · United Auto Workers · Walter Reuther |
| confirmed |
| 1950-04-07 | NSC-68 Directive Creates Permanent Military-Industrial Establishment - Defense Spending to Triple
4 src Harry S. Truman · Dean Acheson · Louis Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1950-02-09 | McCarthy Wheeling Speech Claims 205 Communists in State Department Launching Witch Hunt
3 src Joseph McCarthy · Harry S. Truman | | confirmed |
| 1950-01-01 | Corporate Anti-Communist Network Coordinates Labor Suppression Through NAM, Chamber of Commerce Infrastructure
12 src National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Legion · House Un-American Activities Committee | | confirmed |