Civil Rights Suppression
The Civil Rights Suppression capture lane traces 319 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1883-10-15 | Civil Rights Cases Strike Down 1875 Act, Legitimizing Jim Crow U.S. Supreme Court · Joseph P. Bradley · John Marshall Harlan | confirmed | |
| 1882-05-06 | Chinese Exclusion Act Bans Immigration Through Racist Labor Scapegoating Chester A. Arthur · U.S. Congress · Chinese immigrant workers · Labor unions · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1879-10-01 | Carlisle Indian Industrial School Opens With "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" Mission of Cultural Genocide Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt · U.S. government · U.S. War Department · Bureau of Indian Affairs | confirmed | |
| 1878-06-18 | Posse Comitatus Act Restricts Federal Military from Domestic Law Enforcement Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1877-02-28 | Congress Seizes Black Hills With Only 10% Sioux Consent, Violating Fort Laramie Treaty Requirement for 75% Approval U.S. Congress · Sioux Nation · Lakota people · President Ulysses S. Grant | confirmed | |
| 1877-02-26 | Compromise of 1877: Wormley Agreement Abandons Black Americans Rutherford B. Hayes · Southern Democrats · Northern Republicans · Disenfranchised Black Americans | confirmed | |
| 1874-12-07 | Vicksburg Massacre: White League Kills 150-300 Black Citizens, Overthrows Sheriff White League · Peter Crosby · Andrew J. Gilmer · Ulysses S. Grant | confirmed | |
| 1874-07-02 | Custer's Black Hills Expedition Violates Fort Laramie Treaty, Discovering Gold and Triggering Rush to Sioux Sacred Lands Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer · U.S. Army · Sioux Nation · Horatio Ross (prospector) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1873-04-13 | Colfax Massacre: 150 Black Americans Murdered to Overthrow Local Government White Supremacist Militia · Ku Klux Klan · Knights of White Camellia · Grant Parish Black Militia | confirmed | |
| 1871-04-20 | Ku Klux Klan Act Authorizes Federal Suppression of Terrorist Violence Ulysses S. Grant · 42nd United States Congress · Amos Akerman · Ku Klux Klan | confirmed | |
| 1868-04-29 | Fort Laramie Treaty Guarantees Black Hills to Sioux in Perpetuity - Later Violated for Gold Rush Sioux Nation · U.S. government · Lakota people · Red Cloud | confirmed | |
| 1865-12-24 | Ku Klux Klan Founded as Terrorist Organization to Restore White Supremacy Nathan Bedford Forrest · Confederate Veterans · Calvin E. Jones · John B. Kennedy · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1863-01-15 | Treasury Department Cotton Permit System Enables Massive Corruption as Officials Trade with Enemy for Personal Profit U.S. Treasury Department · Charles Dana · Abraham Lincoln · Salmon P. Chase · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1863-01-01 | Emancipation Proclamation Faces Violent Northern Resistance from Democrats and White Supremacists Fearing Labor Competition Abraham Lincoln · Northern Democrats · Copperheads · Frederick Douglass · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1842-03-01 | Prigg v Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling Protects Slave Catchers and Enables Kidnapping U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Joseph Story · Justice John McLean · Edward Prigg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1831-08-21 | Nat Turner Rebellion Triggers Brutal Repression and Tightening of Slave Codes Across the South Nat Turner · Virginia Legislature · Southern state governments · Enslaved population · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1819-03-03 | Civilization Fund Act Authorizes Federal Funding for Indigenous Assimilation Schools, Laying Groundwork for Boarding School System U.S. Congress · President James Monroe · Bureau of Indian Affairs · Religious missions · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1797-10-18 | XYZ Affair Exposes French Diplomatic Bribery Demands and Triggers Quasi-War Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord · Charles Cotesworth Pinckney · John Marshall · Elbridge Gerry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1790-03-26 | Naturalization Act Restricts Citizenship to Free White Persons Creating Racial Caste System First Congress · George Washington | confirmed |