| 2012-05-17 | Sarkeesian Launches Tropes vs. Women in Video Games Kickstarter; Coordinated Harassment Follows Within Hours
5 src |
| confirmed |
| 2012-04-06 | Magnitsky Act Passed by US Congress
3 src John McCain · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-15 | PredPol Predictive Policing Company Founded
2 src |
| confirmed |
| 2011-09-01 | LAPD Launches Operation LASER Predictive Policing Program with Palantir
3 src LAPD · Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | North Carolina Republicans Begin Aggressive Racial Gerrymandering
4 src North Carolina General Assembly · Republican Party · Robert Rucho |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-02 | Ohio Evangelical Turnout Delivers Bush Reelection: "Values Voters" Become the Decisive Electoral Bloc
2 src George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2004-02-24 | Bush 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 |
| confirmed |
| 2003-06-23 | Grutter v. Bollinger - Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action but Sets 25-Year Limit
3 src Sandra Day O'Connor · Clarence Thomas |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-01 | DynCorp Bosnia Trafficking Scandal: Contractor Employees Purchase Women and Girls for Sexual Slavery, Face No Criminal Prosecution
2 src United Nations |
| confirmed |
| 2000-03-01 | Subprime Lending Explodes as Predatory Practices Spread to Minority Communities
3 src Citigroup |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Florida Disenfranchises 1.4 Million Citizens Through Felony Voting Bans, Highest Rate in Nation
4 src Florida Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1997-10-01 | 287(g) Program Created, Deputizing Local Police for Immigration Enforcement
3 src U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 1996-09-30 | Clinton Signs IIRIRA Expanding Deportation, Retroactive Aggravated Felonies
3 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service |
| confirmed |
| 1996-04-24 | Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Expands Deportation, Strips Judicial Review
3 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Immigration and Naturalization Service |
| confirmed |
| 1996-01-28 | Hillary Clinton Delivers "Super-Predators" Speech Supporting 1994 Crime Bill
4 src Hillary Clinton · Bill Clinton |
| confirmed |
| 1994-10-01 | Operation Gatekeeper Launches Clinton Border Militarization, Funneling Migrants to Deadly Terrain
3 src Bill Clinton · Janet Reno · Immigration and Naturalization Service · U.S. Border Patrol |
| confirmed |
| 1994-09-13 | Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act Fuels Mass Incarceration
4 src Bill Clinton · Joe Biden |
| confirmed |
| 1993-01-22 | Zoe Baird Nomination Collapses Over Undocumented Nanny, Launching Immigration Enforcement Politicization
3 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Senate · Janet Reno | | confirmed |
| 1992-06-13 | Clinton Uses 'Sister Souljah Moment' to Distance Democrats from Black Community
4 src Bill Clinton · Democratic Party | | confirmed |
| 1992-05-01 | Los Angeles Riots Trigger Immigration Enforcement Intensification, 1,000 Deportations
3 src Immigration and Naturalization Service · Los Angeles Police Department · George H.W. Bush | | confirmed |
| 1991-06-05 | Trump Plaza Fined $200,000 for Removing Black Employees from Gaming Floor
3 src Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 1990-11-29 | Immigration Act of 1990 Expands Legal Immigration, Creates Diversity Visa Lottery
3 src George H.W. Bush · Edward Kennedy · Alan Simpson · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1990-10-29 | Jesse Helms 'White Hands' Ad Weaponizes Affirmative Action Against Black Senate Candidate
3 src Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1989-05-01 | Trump Demands Death Penalty in $85,000 Ads Against Central Park Five
3 src Donald Trump · Yusef Salaam · Korey Wise · Antron McCray · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1988-11-18 | Anti-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 |
| confirmed |
| 1987-09-16 | Senate Resolution Acknowledges Haudenosaunee Influence on Constitution During Bicentennial Celebrations
2 src U.S. Senate · Haudenosaunee Confederacy |
| confirmed |
| 1986-10-27 | Anti-Drug Abuse Act Establishes 100-to-1 Crack-Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
4 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1983-10-09 | James Watt Resigns After Racist Remarks: Interior Department Corruption Ends
4 src James Watt · Ronald Reagan · Department of Interior |
| confirmed |
| 1983-01-01 | Reagan 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1981-09-29 | Reagan 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1981-07-01 | AG 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1980-10-01 | INS 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1980-08-03 | Reagan Launches General Election Campaign with 'States' Rights' Speech Near Civil Rights Murder Site
4 src Ronald Reagan · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1980-04-21 | Mariel Boatlift Exposes Racist Double Standards as Cubans Welcomed While Haitians Detained
3 src Jimmy Carter · Haitian refugees · Immigration and Naturalization Service | | confirmed |
| 1980-03-17 | Refugee 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1978-08-22 | IRS Tightens Private School Tax Exemption Rules Catalyzing Religious Right Political Mobilization
3 src Internal Revenue Service · Paul Weyrich · Richard Viguerie |
| confirmed |
| 1978-08-11 | American 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1978-03-06 | DOJ Returns to Court: Trump Violated 1975 Discrimination Settlement
3 src Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Department 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1976-04-20 | Supreme Court Allows Metropolitan-Wide Housing Desegregation Remedy
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | | confirmed |
| 1974-12-22 | Hersh NYT Expose of CIA Domestic Surveillance Triggers Church, Pike, Rockefeller Investigations
3 src Seymour Hersh · New York Times · William Colby · Gerald Ford · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1974-09-12 | Boston Busing Crisis Erupts, Northern White Resistance to Desegregation
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1974-07-25 | Milliken 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1973-10-15 | DOJ Sues Trump and Father for Systemic Housing Discrimination
3 src Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn |
| confirmed |
| 1973-03-21 | San Antonio v. Rodriguez - Supreme Court Upholds Property Tax School Funding, Entrenches Inequality
3 src Lewis Powell · Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1971-09-04 | Nixon White House Enemies List Drafted by Dean, Weaponizing Federal Agencies Against Political Opponents
3 src Richard Nixon · John Dean · Internal Revenue Service |
| confirmed |
| 1971-06-17 | Nixon Declares Drug Abuse "Public Enemy Number One"
3 src Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman | | confirmed |
| 1971-04-28 | Hoover 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1971-03-24 | Citizens' Commission Distributes COINTELPRO Files to Press, NBC Reports FBI Surveillance Operations
3 src Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI · NBC News · Washington Post |
| confirmed |
| 1970-07-10 | IRS Adopts Non-Discrimination Policy for Private Schools After Court Order Targeting Segregation Academies
3 src Internal Revenue Service · Federal Courts |
| confirmed |
| 1969-12-04 | FBI 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1968-06-05 | Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated in Los Angeles After California Primary Victory
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · LAPD |
| confirmed |
| 1968-04-11 | Fair 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. |
| confirmed |
| 1967-08-15 | CIA Launches Operation CHAOS, Systematic Domestic Surveillance of Anti-War Movement
3 src Richard Helms · Lyndon B. Johnson · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1967-07-28 | Reagan 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1967-07-23 | Detroit Riots Accelerate Pre-Existing White Flight and Corporate Urban Disinvestment Pattern Creating Decades of Economic Decline
4 src Corporate interests |
| confirmed |
| 1967-07-01 | NSA Launches Project MINARET Watchlist Program Targeting U.S. Citizens
3 src National Security Agency · Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1965-04-11 | Elementary and Secondary Education Act Establishes Federal Role in Education Funding
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1964-11-21 | FBI 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. |
| confirmed |
| 1964-06-21 | Mississippi Burning Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner During Freedom Summer Voter Registration
3 src Ku Klux Klan · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1964-06-10 | Senate Invokes Cloture to End 72-Day Filibuster Against Civil Rights Act for First Time in History
3 src Richard Russell | | confirmed |
| 1963-10-18 | Hoover 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1960-01-18 | Congressional Report Finds 1,400 Retired Military Officers Employed by Top Defense Contractors
2 src House Armed Services Committee · General Dynamics |
| confirmed |
| 1957-09-24 | Eisenhower Sends Federal Troops to Little Rock After Governor Uses National Guard Against Integration
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower | | confirmed |
| 1957-07-08 | Hoover Formalizes "Official and Confidential" File System, Institutionalizing Personal Blackmail Infrastructure
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| 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 |
| 1954-07-11 | White Citizens' Councils Founded With Business Elite Backing to Resist Integration
4 src White Citizens' Councils | | confirmed |
| 1954-06-17 | Operation Wetback Mass Deportation Uses Military Tactics, Human Rights Violations
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · Immigration and Naturalization Service |
| 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 |
| 1953-01-28 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 1952-01-01 | 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 |
| 1951-06-04 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 1949-08-10 | Louis 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1949-07-15 | Housing Act of 1949 Creates Urban Renewal Program, Becomes "Negro Removal"
3 src U.S. Congress · Harry Truman | | confirmed |
| 1948-07-26 | Executive Order 9981 Desegregates U.S. Military - Truman Repudiates 170 Years of Discrimination
3 src Harry S. Truman | | confirmed |
| 1948-07-17 | Dixiecrat Revolt - Strom Thurmond Leads Segregationist Walkout After Democratic Civil Rights Platform
3 src Strom Thurmond · Democratic Party | | confirmed |
| 1948-05-03 | Supreme Court Rules Racially Restrictive Housing Covenants Unenforceable
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Fred Vinson · NAACP Legal Defense Fund | | confirmed |
| 1948-01-27 | Smith-Mundt Act Authorizes State Department Propaganda Apparatus - Voice of America Expands
3 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · State Department · Voice of America |
| confirmed |
| 1947-10-20 | HUAC Hollywood Hearings Begin, Studio Executives Cooperate as "Friendly Witnesses"
6 src House Un-American Activities Committee · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1947-10-01 | Federal Loyalty Program Implementation Creates Permanent Political Background-Check Regime
3 src Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1947-03-21 | Executive Order 9835 Establishes Federal Loyalty Program - 5 Million Screened, Guilt Presumed
4 src Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · House Un-American Activities Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1946-05-01 | Operation Dixie Launched to Unionize the South, Met with Violent Corporate Resistance
3 src Congress of Industrial Organizations · United Auto Workers · Ku Klux Klan |
| confirmed |
| 1945-01-03 | HUAC Made Permanent Standing Committee, Institutionalizes Political Persecution
3 src U.S. House of Representatives · House Un-American Activities Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1944-12-18 | Korematsu v. United States - Supreme Court Upholds Japanese Internment
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Hugo Black · Frank Murphy · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1944-11-07 | Arkansas and Florida Become First States to Pass Right-to-Work Laws Through Racist, Anti-Semitic Campaign
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1944-07-17 | Port Chicago Disaster and Black Sailors Mutiny Conviction
3 src U.S. Navy · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP |
| confirmed |
| 1944-06-22 | GI Bill Passed with Discriminatory State Implementation Enabling Racial Wealth Gap
7 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · American Legion | | confirmed |
| 1943-06-20 | Detroit Race Riot Exposes Housing Segregation and War Production Tensions
3 src NAACP | | confirmed |
| 1942-07-02 | FDR Proclamation 2561 Creates Military Tribunal for Nazi Saboteurs; Ex parte Quirin Becomes Cited Precedent for Post-9/11 Detention
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Supreme Court · Francis Biddle · J. Edgar Hoover |
| confirmed |
| 1942-02-19 | Executive Order 9066 as Executive-Power Template: FDR's Internment Authority Predicate for 2001 Detention Architecture
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Francis Biddle · Earl Warren |
| confirmed |
| 1942-02-19 | Executive Order 9066 Authorizes Japanese American Internment
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. War Department |
| confirmed |
| 1941-12-07 | FBI Pre-Pearl-Harbor Japanese-American Dossier System Provides Internment Target Lists
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1940-06-28 | Smith Act Criminalizes Advocacy of Government Overthrow, Enables Political Persecution
3 src U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Franklin D. Roosevelt | | confirmed |