Capture lane

Civil Rights Suppression

The Civil Rights Suppression capture lane traces 371 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

371 events From Mar 26, 1790 To Oct 21, 2026 Open in filter view →
Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1142–2026
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DateEventLanesStatus
2016-06-02Trump Attacks Federal Judge Curiel as "Mexican" Despite Indiana Birth, Paul Ryan Calls It "Textbook Racism" 3 src
Donald Trump · Gonzalo Curiel · Paul Ryan
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2015-06-29NBC Fires Trump from The Apprentice Following Racist Comments About Mexican Immigrants 3 src
Donald Trump · NBC
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2015-06-17White Supremacist Dylann Roof Murders Nine Black Worshippers at Historic Charleston Church - Confederate Flag Controversy Exposes South Carolina's Institutional Racism 4 src
South Carolina Legislature
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2015-06-16Trump Descends Escalator with "Rapists" Speech: Breitbart Pivots to Full Campaign Organ 2 src
Donald Trump · Steve Bannon
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2015-06-16Trump Launches Presidential Campaign Calling Mexican Immigrants 'Rapists' and Criminals 4 src
Donald Trump
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2014-10-13GM Plant Stops Using Flint Water After It Corrodes Car Parts—But Residents Must Keep Drinking It 3 src
General Motors · Darnell Earley · Flint City Government
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2014-07-21Human Rights Watch Report - FBI Terrorism Prosecutions "Often An Illusion" 3 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Human Rights Watch · Department of Justice
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2014-06-25Supreme Court Rules Warrantless Cell Phone Searches Unconstitutional in Riley v. California 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts
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2014-06-21Trump: Central Park Five Still Guilty Despite DNA Exoneration 3 src
Donald Trump · Yusef Salaam · Korey Wise · Antron McCray · +2
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2014-04-25Flint Switches to Corrosive River Water to Save Money, Poisoning Entire City 4 src
Darnell Earley
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2014-01-01Flint Water Crisis (2014-2024) - 12,000 Children Poisoned, Zero Accountability 5 src
Rick Snyder · Darnell Earley
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2013-08-01Chicago Police Launch Strategic Subject List "Heat List" Predictive Policing Program 3 src
Chicago Police Department
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2013-03-11Federal Court Rules Texas 2011 Redistricting Intentionally Discriminated Against Latino Voters 4 src
Texas Legislature · Republican Party
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2013-01-02Obama Signs American Taxpayer Relief Act Making 82% of Bush Tax Cuts Permanent - 'Fiscal Cliff' Deal Locks in $2.8 Trillion in Tax Cuts for Wealthy 5 src
Barack Obama · Joe Biden · Mitch McConnell · Nancy Pelosi · +1
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2012-10-01Reddit's "Manosphere" Reaches Critical Mass: r/TheRedPill and r/MensRights Become Gateway to White Nationalist Radicalization 3 src confirmed
2012-06-01New Orleans Police Launch Secret Palantir Predictive Policing Program 3 src
Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel
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2012-05-17Sarkeesian Launches Tropes vs. Women in Video Games Kickstarter; Coordinated Harassment Follows Within Hours 5 src confirmed
2012-04-06Magnitsky Act Passed by US Congress 3 src
John McCain · U.S. Congress
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2012-01-15PredPol Predictive Policing Company Founded 2 src confirmed
2011-09-01LAPD Launches Operation LASER Predictive Policing Program with Palantir 3 src
LAPD · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel
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2011-01-01North Carolina Republicans Begin Aggressive Racial Gerrymandering 4 src
North Carolina General Assembly · Republican Party · Robert Rucho
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2004-11-02Ohio Evangelical Turnout Delivers Bush Reelection: "Values Voters" Become the Decisive Electoral Bloc 2 src
George W. Bush
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2004-02-24Bush Endorses Federal Marriage Amendment: Anti-Gay-Marriage Constitutional Strategy Becomes Republican Turnout Infrastructure
George W. Bush · Focus on the Family · Family Research Council · James Dobson
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2003-06-23Grutter v. Bollinger - Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action but Sets 25-Year Limit 3 src
Sandra Day O'Connor · Clarence Thomas
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2002-08-01DynCorp Bosnia Trafficking Scandal: Contractor Employees Purchase Women and Girls for Sexual Slavery, Face No Criminal Prosecution 2 src
United Nations
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2000-03-01Subprime Lending Explodes as Predatory Practices Spread to Minority Communities 3 src
Citigroup
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2000-01-01Florida Disenfranchises 1.4 Million Citizens Through Felony Voting Bans, Highest Rate in Nation 4 src
Florida Legislature
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1997-10-01287(g) Program Created, Deputizing Local Police for Immigration Enforcement 3 src
U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice
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1996-09-30Clinton Signs IIRIRA Expanding Deportation, Retroactive Aggravated Felonies 3 src
Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service
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1996-04-24Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Expands Deportation, Strips Judicial Review 3 src
Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Immigration and Naturalization Service
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1996-01-28Hillary Clinton Delivers "Super-Predators" Speech Supporting 1994 Crime Bill 4 src
Hillary Clinton · Bill Clinton
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1994-10-01Operation Gatekeeper Launches Clinton Border Militarization, Funneling Migrants to Deadly Terrain 3 src
Bill Clinton · Janet Reno · Immigration and Naturalization Service · U.S. Border Patrol
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1994-09-13Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act Fuels Mass Incarceration 4 src
Bill Clinton · Joe Biden
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1993-01-22Zoe Baird Nomination Collapses Over Undocumented Nanny, Launching Immigration Enforcement Politicization 3 src
Bill Clinton · U.S. Senate · Janet Reno
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1992-06-13Clinton Uses 'Sister Souljah Moment' to Distance Democrats from Black Community 4 src
Bill Clinton · Democratic Party
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1992-05-01Los Angeles Riots Trigger Immigration Enforcement Intensification, 1,000 Deportations 3 src
Immigration and Naturalization Service · Los Angeles Police Department · George H.W. Bush
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1991-06-05Trump Plaza Fined $200,000 for Removing Black Employees from Gaming Floor 3 src
Donald Trump
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1990-11-29Immigration Act of 1990 Expands Legal Immigration, Creates Diversity Visa Lottery 3 src
George H.W. Bush · Edward Kennedy · Alan Simpson · U.S. Congress
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1990-10-29Jesse Helms 'White Hands' Ad Weaponizes Affirmative Action Against Black Senate Candidate 3 src
Republican Party
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1989-05-01Trump Demands Death Penalty in $85,000 Ads Against Central Park Five 3 src
Donald Trump · Yusef Salaam · Korey Wise · Antron McCray · +2
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1988-11-18Anti-Drug Abuse Act Creates "Aggravated Felony" Category, Merging War on Drugs with Deportation 3 src
Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Immigration and Naturalization Service
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1987-09-16Senate Resolution Acknowledges Haudenosaunee Influence on Constitution During Bicentennial Celebrations 2 src
U.S. Senate · Haudenosaunee Confederacy
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1986-10-27Anti-Drug Abuse Act Establishes 100-to-1 Crack-Cocaine Sentencing Disparity 4 src
Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress
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1983-10-09James Watt Resigns After Racist Remarks: Interior Department Corruption Ends 4 src
James Watt · Ronald Reagan · Department of Interior
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1983-01-01Reagan Administration's Mass Immigration Emergency Plan Mandates 10,000 Detention Beds — First Systematic Detention Infrastructure Requirement in U.S. History 4 src
Ronald Reagan · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice · Kenneth Starr
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1981-09-29Reagan Orders Coast Guard Interdiction of Haitian Refugees, Establishing Maritime Asylum Denial 3 src
Ronald Reagan · U.S. Coast Guard · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of State
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1981-07-01AG Smith Declares Detention-as-Deterrence Doctrine, Eliminating Bond Rights for Asylum Seekers 5 src
Ronald Reagan · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice · Haitian refugees
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1980-10-01INS Opens Krome Avenue Detention Center on Decommissioned Nike Missile Site, Locking In Detention as Default Immigration Response 4 src
Immigration and Naturalization Service · Jimmy Carter · Ronald Reagan · Haitian refugees
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1980-08-03Reagan Launches General Election Campaign with 'States' Rights' Speech Near Civil Rights Murder Site 4 src
Ronald Reagan · Republican Party
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1980-04-21Mariel Boatlift Exposes Racist Double Standards as Cubans Welcomed While Haitians Detained 3 src
Jimmy Carter · Haitian refugees · Immigration and Naturalization Service
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1980-03-17Refugee Act of 1980 Establishes Systematic Asylum Process, Becomes Target of Enforcement Capture 3 src
Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · U.S. Congress · United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees · +1
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1978-08-22IRS Tightens Private School Tax Exemption Rules Catalyzing Religious Right Political Mobilization 3 src
Internal Revenue Service · Paul Weyrich · Richard Viguerie
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1978-08-11American Indian Religious Freedom Act Passes Without Enforcement Mechanisms, Proving Ineffective at Protecting Sacred Sites 3 src
U.S. Congress · Jimmy Carter · Bureau of Indian Affairs · Native American Tribes
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1978-03-06DOJ Returns to Court: Trump Violated 1975 Discrimination Settlement 3 src
Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn
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1977-01-01Department of Justice Announces Abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement, Adopting Chicago School Critique 4 src
Department of Justice · Robert Bork · Federal Trade Commission · Chicago School of Economics
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1976-04-20Supreme Court Allows Metropolitan-Wide Housing Desegregation Remedy 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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1974-12-22Hersh NYT Expose of CIA Domestic Surveillance Triggers Church, Pike, Rockefeller Investigations 3 src
Seymour Hersh · New York Times · William Colby · Gerald Ford · +1
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1974-09-12Boston Busing Crisis Erupts, Northern White Resistance to Desegregation 3 srcconfirmed
1974-07-25Milliken v. Bradley - Supreme Court Blocks Cross-District School Desegregation, Entrenches White Flight 3 src
Warren Burger · Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund
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1973-10-15DOJ Sues Trump and Father for Systemic Housing Discrimination 3 src
Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn
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1973-03-21San Antonio v. Rodriguez - Supreme Court Upholds Property Tax School Funding, Entrenches Inequality 3 src
Lewis Powell · Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court
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1971-09-04Nixon White House Enemies List Drafted by Dean, Weaponizing Federal Agencies Against Political Opponents 3 src
Richard Nixon · John Dean · Internal Revenue Service
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1971-06-17Nixon Declares Drug Abuse "Public Enemy Number One" 3 src
Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman
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1971-04-28Hoover Abolishes Formal COINTELPRO Operations After Media Expose, But Informal Operations Continue 3 src
J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI
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1971-03-24Citizens' Commission Distributes COINTELPRO Files to Press, NBC Reports FBI Surveillance Operations 3 src
Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI · NBC News · Washington Post
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1970-07-10IRS Adopts Non-Discrimination Policy for Private Schools After Court Order Targeting Segregation Academies 3 src
Internal Revenue Service · Federal Courts
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1969-12-04FBI and Chicago Police Assassinate Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton in Pre-Dawn Raid 3 src
J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Chicago Police Department · Black Panther Party
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1968-06-05Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated in Los Angeles After California Primary Victory 3 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · LAPD
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1968-04-11Fair Housing Act Passes After MLK Assassination Overcomes National Association of Real Estate Boards Decades of Opposition 4 src
Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr.
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1967-08-15CIA Launches Operation CHAOS, Systematic Domestic Surveillance of Anti-War Movement 3 src
Richard Helms · Lyndon B. Johnson · Central Intelligence Agency
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1967-07-28Reagan Signs Mulford Act Gun Control Law With NRA Support to Disarm Black Panthers Armed Patrols 4 src
Ronald Reagan · National Rifle Association · Black Panther Party · California State Legislature
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1967-07-23Detroit Riots Accelerate Pre-Existing White Flight and Corporate Urban Disinvestment Pattern Creating Decades of Economic Decline 4 src
Corporate interests
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1967-07-01NSA Launches Project MINARET Watchlist Program Targeting U.S. Citizens 3 src
National Security Agency · Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon
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1965-04-11Elementary and Secondary Education Act Establishes Federal Role in Education Funding 3 src
Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress
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1964-11-21FBI Mails Anonymous Suicide Letter to Martin Luther King Jr., Weaponizing Surveillance Material 3 src
J. Edgar Hoover · William C. Sullivan · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Martin Luther King Jr.
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1964-06-21Mississippi Burning Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner During Freedom Summer Voter Registration 3 src
Ku Klux Klan · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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1964-06-10Senate Invokes Cloture to End 72-Day Filibuster Against Civil Rights Act for First Time in History 3 src
Richard Russell
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1963-10-18Hoover Personally Briefs Johnson with King Sex-Surveillance Dossier, Weaponizing Personal Material Against Civil Rights Leader 3 src
J. Edgar Hoover · Lyndon B. Johnson · William C. Sullivan · Martin Luther King Jr. · +1
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1960-01-18Congressional Report Finds 1,400 Retired Military Officers Employed by Top Defense Contractors 2 src
House Armed Services Committee · General Dynamics
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1957-09-24Eisenhower Sends Federal Troops to Little Rock After Governor Uses National Guard Against Integration 3 src
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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1957-07-08Hoover Formalizes "Official and Confidential" File System, Institutionalizing Personal Blackmail Infrastructure 3 src
J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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1956-02-06University of Alabama Expels Autherine Lucy After White Mob Violence, First Black Student Barred 3 src
NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall · Ku Klux Klan
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1956-01-01White Citizens Councils Reach Peak Membership of 300,000 Through Business Elite Coordination 3 src
White Citizens' Councils
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1954-07-11White Citizens' Councils Founded With Business Elite Backing to Resist Integration 4 src
White Citizens' Councils
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1954-06-17Operation Wetback Mass Deportation Uses Military Tactics, Human Rights Violations 3 src
Dwight D. Eisenhower · Immigration and Naturalization Service
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1953-06-19Julius 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
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1953-01-28Charles 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
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1952-06-27McCarran-Walter Act Imposes Racialized Immigration Quotas Over Truman Veto - 85% for Europeans 3 src
Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress
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1952-01-01Hollywood 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
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1951-06-04Dennis 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
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1951-04-01Hollywood Ten Released from Prison but Remain Blacklisted, Industry Persecution Continues 3 src
House Un-American Activities Committee
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1950-09-23McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Codifies Red-Scare Surveillance Apparatus 3 src
Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Communist Party USA
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1950-09-23McCarran 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
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1950-09-08Defense Production Act Institutionalizes Korean War Industrial Mobilization, Defense Budget Quadruples to $50 Billion 3 src
Harry Truman · Boeing · Lockheed · General Electric · +1
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1950-09-01State Loyalty Oaths Spread as California Passes Levering Act, Requires Public Employee Pledges 3 src
California Legislature · Earl Warren · American Civil Liberties Union
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1949-08-10Louis Johnson Exonerated in B-36 Scandal Despite Convair Board Service and Contract Awards 3 src
Louis Johnson · House Armed Services Committee · U.S. Air Force
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1949-07-15Housing Act of 1949 Creates Urban Renewal Program, Becomes "Negro Removal" 3 src
U.S. Congress · Harry Truman
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1948-07-26Executive Order 9981 Desegregates U.S. Military - Truman Repudiates 170 Years of Discrimination 3 src
Harry S. Truman
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1948-07-17Dixiecrat Revolt - Strom Thurmond Leads Segregationist Walkout After Democratic Civil Rights Platform 3 src
Strom Thurmond · Democratic Party
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1948-05-03Supreme Court Rules Racially Restrictive Housing Covenants Unenforceable 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Fred Vinson · NAACP Legal Defense Fund
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