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1927-04-21Great Mississippi Flood Exposes Racial Labor Exploitation and Plantation System

disaster-capitalism racism institutional-racism +2

1927-04-11Supreme Court Applies Antitrust Law to Union Secondary Boycotts in Bedford Cut Stone

judicial-capture antitrust labor-suppression +1

1927-02-25McFadden Act Perpetuates Banking Fragmentation, Prohibits Interstate Branching

regulatory-capture financial-deregulation banking

1927-02-23Radio Act of 1927 Establishes Public Ownership of Airwaves and "Public Interest" Broadcasting Standard

fcc media-regulation public-interest-standard +3

1927-01-01Company Unions Peak as Welfare Capitalism Undermines Independent Labor

institutional-capture labor-suppression anti-union +1

1926-11-15NBC Created as RCA Establishes Radio Broadcasting Monopoly

institutional-capture media-consolidation corporate-capture +1

1926-08-06Gertrude Ederle Swims English Channel But Era Constrains Women's Progress

civil-liberties gender institutional-barriers

1926-02-26Revenue Act of 1926 Slashes Top Tax Rate to 25%, Abolishes Gift Tax in Full Mellon Plan

institutional-capture wealth-concentration tax-policy +1

1925-11-14D.C. Stephenson Convicted of Murder Exposing Klan Leadership Corruption

institutional-capture political-corruption white-supremacy +1

1925-08-08KKK Marches on Washington at Peak of Institutional Influence

institutional-capture political-corruption racism +1

1925-06-08Supreme Court Upholds Criminal Anarchy Conviction While Expanding Due Process

supreme-court first-amendment civil-liberties +2

1925-05-25Supreme Court Reverses Coronado Decision, Opens Unions to Antitrust Liability

judicial-capture antitrust labor-suppression +1

1925-01-30Charles Forbes Convicted of Veterans Bureau Fraud After Nine-Week Trial

political-corruption veterans-affairs harding-scandals

1925-01-01Florida Land Boom Epitomizes Unregulated Speculation and Securities Fraud

securities-fraud regulatory-failure real-estate +2

1924-06-02Revenue Act of 1924 Continues Mellon Tax Cuts for Wealthy, Lowers Top Rate to 46%

institutional-capture wealth-concentration tax-policy +1

1924-05-26Immigration Act of 1924 Imposes Racist National Origins Quotas Based on Eugenics

institutional-capture racism xenophobia +3

1924-03-28Coolidge Fires Daugherty for Refusing to Open Justice Department Files

institutional-capture obstruction accountability-crisis +1

1924-01-15National Industrial Conference Board Coordinates Corporate Anti-Union Propaganda

institutional-capture propaganda labor-suppression +2

1923-10-15Senate Public Lands Committee Begins Teapot Dome Hearings Under Thomas Walsh

congressional-oversight political-corruption institutional-accountability

1923-09-01Ku Klux Klan Seizes Control of Indiana State Government

institutional-capture state-government political-corruption +2

1923-05-30Jesse Smith Suicide Exposes Ohio Gang Justice Department Corruption

institutional-capture systematic-corruption executive-corruption +1

1923-04-09Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Minimum Wage Law for Women in Adkins Decision

supreme-court judicial-capture labor-suppression +1

1923-02-15Charles Forbes Resigns Veterans Bureau Amid Massive Corruption Scandal

institutional-capture systematic-corruption fraud +1

1923-01-01Edward Bernays Publishes "Crystallizing Public Opinion" Launching Modern PR Industry

institutional-capture propaganda corporate-influence +2

1922-11-01Scripps-McRae League Renamed Scripps-Howard as Second-Largest Newspaper Chain Consolidates Power

monopoly media-consolidation newspaper-chains +1

1922-09-01Railway Shopcraft Strike Broken by Daugherty Sweeping Injunction

judicial-capture labor-suppression anti-union +1

1922-06-05Supreme Court Rules Unincorporated Unions Can Be Sued in Coronado Coal Case

judicial-capture antitrust labor-suppression +1

1922-05-15Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Tax as Unconstitutional

supreme-court judicial-capture corporate-power +2

1922-04-15Senate Initiates Investigation of Teapot Dome Secret Oil Leases

congressional-oversight political-corruption investigative-journalism

1922-04-07Albert Fall Secretly Grants Teapot Dome Oil Reserve to Harry Sinclair Without Competitive Bidding

systematic-corruption regulatory-capture political-corruption +1

1922-01-01Holding Company Proliferation Enables Corporate Consolidation and Regulatory Evasion

regulatory-capture financial-manipulation corporate-consolidation +2

1921-12-19Supreme Court Invalidates Arizona Anti-Injunction Law in Truax v. Corrigan

supreme-court judicial-capture labor-suppression +1

1921-11-30Interior Secretary Albert Fall Receives $100,000 Cash Bribe from Edward Doheny

systematic-corruption political-corruption bribery +1

1921-11-23Revenue Act of 1921 Begins Mellon Tax Cuts for Wealthy

institutional-capture systematic-corruption wealth-concentration +1

1921-09-15DuPont-GM Consolidation Creates Model of Interlocking Corporate Control

institutional-capture corporate-consolidation corporate-governance +1

1921-08-25Battle of Blair Mountain - Largest Armed Labor Uprising in US History

labor-suppression federal-intervention state-violence +1

1921-05-31Harding Transfers Naval Oil Reserves to Interior Department

institutional-capture regulatory-capture executive-corruption +1

1921-05-19Emergency Quota Act Establishes First Numerical Immigration Limits Based on National Origin

institutional-capture labor-suppression xenophobia +2

1921-01-03Supreme Court Guts Clayton Act Labor Protections in Duplex Printing Decision

supreme-court judicial-capture antitrust +2

1921-01-01American Plan Open Shop Campaign Launches Nationwide Union Suppression

systematic-corruption labor-suppression anti-union +1

1920-08-23Sacco and Vanzetti Arrested in Red Scare Climate of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria

judicial-capture civil-liberties labor-suppression +3

1920-08-18Tennessee Becomes 36th State to Ratify 19th Amendment as Women Win Right to Vote

womens-suffrage corporate-opposition democratic-expansion +2

1920-06-05Jones Act Establishes Shipping Protectionism Still Harming Consumers Today

institutional-capture regulatory-capture corporate-welfare +1

1920-06-01Farm Crisis Begins as Agricultural Prices Collapse While Debt Remains

regulatory-failure economic-crisis banking +2

1920-03-01Supreme Court Dismisses U.S. Steel Antitrust Case, Ruling Size Alone Not Illegal - Enforcement Ends Until 1945

supreme-court corporate-power antitrust +3

1920-01-02Palmer Raids Escalate with Coordinated Mass Arrests Across 33 Cities

civil-liberties deportation political-repression +1

1920-01-01Hearst Newspaper Empire Reaches 28 Papers Controlling One in Four American Readers Through Yellow Journalism Tactics

monopoly media-consolidation newspaper-chains +3

1919-11-11American Legion Founded with Corporate Backing as Anti-Radical Force

institutional-capture labor-suppression corporate-influence +2

1919-11-10Abrams v. United States: Holmes Dissents, Articulates 'Marketplace of Ideas' Free Speech Theory

judicial-capture first-amendment progressive-era +2

1919-11-07Palmer Raids Begin: Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover Arrest 6,000 in 36 Cities, Deport 249 on "Soviet Ark"

labor-suppression deportation fbi +2

1919-09-22Great Steel Strike Crushed Using Red Scare Propaganda, Palmer Raids

propaganda labor-suppression state-surveillance

1919-07-27Red Summer: Chicago Race Riot Erupts as White Mobs Attack Black Neighborhoods, 38 Killed

civil-rights housing-discrimination racial-violence +2

1919-06-04Senate Passes 19th Amendment Sending Women's Suffrage to States for Ratification

womens-suffrage democratic-expansion constitutional-amendment +1

1919-03-03Schenck v. United States: Supreme Court Creates 'Clear and Present Danger' Test, Upholds Espionage Act Convictions

judicial-capture progressive-era state-repression +2

1918-09-14Eugene V. Debs Sentenced to Ten Years for Antiwar Speech, Runs for President from Prison

progressive-era espionage-act labor-movement +2

1918-06-03Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Law in Hammer v. Dagenhart

supreme-court judicial-capture labor-rights +2

1918-05-16Sedition Act of 1918 Expands Espionage Act to Criminalize Anti-Government Speech

first-amendment civil-liberties progressive-era +1

1918-01-09Wilson Reverses Position and Endorses Women's Suffrage Amendment After Prison Brutality Exposed

womens-suffrage democratic-expansion hypocrisy +2

1917-12-10Hitchman Coal v. Mitchell: Supreme Court Authorizes Injunctions to Enforce Yellow-Dog Contracts

judicial-capture labor-suppression progressive-era +2

1917-11-14Night of Terror as 33 Suffragists Brutalized at Occoquan Workhouse by Prison Guards

womens-suffrage torture state-violence +2

1917-11-05Buchanan v. Warley: Supreme Court Strikes Down Racial Zoning, Property Rights Trump Civil Rights

progressive-era civil-rights housing-discrimination +2

1917-08-01Frank Little Lynched: IWW Executive Board Member Murdered by Vigilantes in Butte

labor-suppression progressive-era corporate-violence +3

1917-07-28War Industries Board Established: Bernard Baruch and "Dollar-a-Year Men" Institutionalize Corporate-Government Fusion

corporate-power institutional-capture revolving-door +2

1917-07-12Bisbee Deportation: Phelps Dodge and Vigilantes Illegally Deport 1,300 Striking Miners

labor-suppression progressive-era corporate-violence +3

1917-06-22First Suffragist Arrests Begin for White House Picketing as State Repression Escalates

womens-suffrage state-repression selective-prosecution +2

1917-06-15Espionage Act Signed: Wilson Criminalizes Antiwar Speech, Targets IWW Labor Organizers and Socialists

labor-suppression iww state-repression +2

1917-06-08Speculator Mine Fire Kills 168 Workers: Anaconda Safety Failures Trigger Butte Strike and Repression

labor-suppression progressive-era corporate-negligence +2

1917-04-13Committee on Public Information Created: Wilson Establishes Federal Propaganda Machine

propaganda progressive-era media-manipulation +2

1917-01-10National Woman's Party Begins Historic White House Picketing as Silent Sentinels

womens-suffrage democratic-expansion civil-disobedience +2

1916-11-14Inez Milholland Dies During Western Suffrage Tour Becoming Martyr for the Cause

womens-suffrage activist-sacrifice movement-martyrdom +1

1916-11-05Everett Massacre: Lumber Company Vigilantes Kill IWW Members at City Dock

labor-suppression progressive-era corporate-violence +2

1916-09-03Adamson Act Establishes Eight-Hour Workday for Railroad Workers

labor-rights progressive-era regulatory-enforcement +1

1916-09-01Keating-Owen Child Labor Act Passed, First Federal Child Labor Restriction

labor-rights progressive-era regulatory-enforcement +1

1916-01-01Corporate Interests Mobilize Systematic Opposition to Women's Suffrage to Protect Profits

institutional-resistance womens-suffrage corporate-opposition +2

1915-11-25KKK Revived at Stone Mountain Cross Burning: Simmons Coordinates with Birth of a Nation Premiere

domestic-terrorism racial-politics white-supremacy +2

1915-08-17Leo Frank Lynched by Antisemitic Mob After Governor Commutes Sentence: Only Jewish Lynching in U.S. History

antisemitism racial-politics mob-violence +2

1915-06-21Guinn v. United States: Supreme Court Strikes Down Grandfather Clauses as Fifteenth Amendment Violation

supreme-court civil-rights voting-rights +2

1915-05-07Lusitania Sunk by German U-Boat with 173 Tons of Munitions Aboard: 1,200 Dead, Morgan Profiteering Exposed

propaganda war-profiteering corporate-negligence +2

1915-02-08Birth of a Nation Premieres in Los Angeles: Groundbreaking Film Glorifies KKK, Depicts Black Americans as Evil

media-manipulation racial-politics white-supremacy +2

1915-01-25Rockefeller Testifies Before Walsh Commission: Three Days of Public Humiliation Over Ludlow Massacre

labor-rights progressive-era corporate-violence +2

1914-10-15Clayton Antitrust Act Signed: Labor Unions Exempted from Antitrust Laws, Gompers Calls It Labor's Magna Carta

antitrust progressive-era labor-organizing +1

1914-09-26Wilson Signs Federal Trade Commission Act, Creating Expert Antitrust Enforcement Agency

corporate-power antitrust progressive-era +2

1914-08-01JP Morgan Becomes Allied War Financier: $3 Billion in Loans and Munitions Contracts, Abandons Neutrality for Profit

banking-consolidation war-profiteering financial-capture +2

1914-04-20Ludlow Massacre - National Guard Attacks Striking Miners, Kills 21 Including Women and Children

labor-rights progressive-era corporate-violence +2

1913-12-23Federal Reserve Act Creates Central Banking System: Wilson Signs Compromise Between Private Bank Control and Government Oversight

progressive-era banking-consolidation federal-reserve +2

1913-10-03Underwood Tariff Slashes Corporate Protection, Establishes Modern Income Tax After 16th Amendment

corporate-power progressive-era tax-policy +2

1913-08-03Wheatland Hop Riot: IWW Farmworkers Protest Conditions, Deputies Kill Four, Leaders Framed

labor-suppression progressive-era iww +2

1913-04-11Wilson Administration Segregates Federal Government: Jim Crow Comes to Washington

progressive-era civil-rights institutional-racism +2

1913-04-0817th Amendment Ratified: Direct Election of Senators Ends State Legislature Appointments and Deadlock Corruption

progressive-era constitutional-amendment democratic-reform +1

1913-04-01JP Morgan Dies in Rome: House of Morgan Partners Blame Pujo Committee Testimony Stress

progressive-era banking-consolidation financial-capture +2

1913-03-03Women's Suffrage Parade in Washington Attacked by Hostile Crowds as Police Stand By

institutional-resistance womens-suffrage state-violence +2

1913-02-25Paterson Silk Strike: IWW Leads 25,000 Workers in Five-Month Struggle Against Textile Manufacturers

labor-suppression progressive-era strike +2

1913-02-0316th Amendment Ratified: Federal Income Tax Established to Shift Burden from Middle Class to Wealthy

progressive-era taxation economic-reform +1

1912-11-05Montana Voters Pass Corrupt Practices Act Banning Corporate Political Spending

campaign-finance corporate-corruption institutional-accountability +4

1912-08-07Theodore Roosevelt Forms Bull Moose Party After GOP Convention Theft: Republican Split Ensures Wilson Victory

corporate-power progressive-era republican-party +2

1912-06-13DuPont Powder Trust Ordered Dissolved, But Family Control and Geographic Proximity Limit Effectiveness

corporate-power antitrust enforcement-limitations +2

1912-05-16Pujo Committee Hearings Begin: Money Trust Investigation Exposes JP Morgan Control of $22 Billion Through 341 Interlocking Directorships

progressive-era banking-consolidation financial-capture +2

1912-04-18Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Mine War: West Virginia Declares Martial Law, Mother Jones Imprisoned

labor-suppression progressive-era mining +2

1912-01-12Lawrence "Bread and Roses" Strike: IWW Unites 20,000 Workers Across 51 Nationalities, Wins 15% Raise

corporate-power progressive-era labor-organizing +2

1911-05-29Supreme Court Orders American Tobacco Breakup, Applying Rule of Reason to Tobacco Trust

supreme-court corporate-power antitrust +3