#Civil-Rights
Events indexed under #Civil-Rights — 124 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-10 | USCIS Ends Automatic Deportation Protection for Child Immigrants Awaiting Visa Backlog, Policy Takes Effect May 10
4 src U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2026-05-07 | Border Czar Homan Confirms ICE Detains US Citizens Daily, Defends Practice as Acceptable
3 src Tom Homan · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2026-05-05 | ICE Air Hits Record 1,794 Enforcement Flights in March 2026 — 122% Surge, First Removals to Moldova, Myanmar, Thailand
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · ICE Air Operations · Human Rights First · Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2026-04-08 | ICE Data Reveals 1,300 'Collateral' Arrests During Operation Metro Surge -- 35% of All Minnesota Detentions
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-17 | Maryland Senate Committee Advances "No Kings Act" Making Federal Agents Liable for Civil Rights Violations
3 src Maryland General Assembly | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-18 | Federal Court Permanently Blocks Trump Administration's DEI Ban in Schools Nationwide
6 src Judge Landya McCafferty · U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire · American Civil Liberties Union · ACLU of New Hampshire · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-02 | GAO Report Reveals Education Department Paid $38M to Idled Civil Rights Staff
3 src U.S. Government Accountability Office · U.S. Department of Education · Linda McMahon · Bernie Sanders · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | ICE Launches Operation Catch of the Day in Maine
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Janet Mills | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | Whistleblowers Expose ICE Policy Authorizing Warrantless Home Entries
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Todd Lyons · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Richard Blumenthal | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | ACLU Files Class Action Against ICE for Racial Profiling in Minnesota
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | Supreme Court Hears Transgender Sports Ban Cases, Signals Support for Restrictions
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Brett Kavanaugh · Samuel Alito · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Border Patrol Agent Shoots Two People in Portland, Oregon, Over 270 Miles From Border
3 src U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Luis David Nico Moncada · Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | DHS Secretary Noem Unveils "One of Ours, All of Yours" Collective Punishment Doctrine at One World Trade Center | ||
| 2026-01-08 | FBI Revokes State Access to Evidence in Renee Good Shooting, Blocks Minnesota Investigation
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension · Bob Jacobson · JD Vance · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | Vice President Vance Announces ICE Will Go 'Door to Door' for Mass Deportations
3 src JD Vance · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Fox News | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | DHS Deploys 2,000 Federal Agents to Minneapolis in 'Largest Immigration Operation Ever'
3 src Kristi Noem · Stephen Miller · Todd Lyons · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-01 | Trump Administration Sets Quota to Strip Citizenship from Over 1,000 Naturalized Americans in 2026
2 src Stephen Miller · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Ilhan Omar · Zohran Mamdani | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-31 | Off-Duty ICE Officer Shoots and Kills Keith Porter in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve
3 src Keith Porter · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · LAPD | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-09 | Department of Justice Eliminates 50-Year-Old Disparate Impact Standard from Civil Rights Enforcement, Requiring Proof of Intentional Discrimination
3 src Pam Bondi · Harmeet Dhillon · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-08 | Human Rights Groups Document Systematic Torture at Fort Bliss Immigration Detention Facility: 45+ Detainees Report Beatings, Sexual Abuse, Crushed Testicles, and Coerced Deportations
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · American Civil Liberties Union · Human Rights Watch · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-06 | National Park Service Removes MLK Day and Juneteenth from Fee-Free Days, Adds Trump's Birthday
5 src Interior Department · National Park Service · Donald Trump · Doug Burgum · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-05 | Supreme Court Grants Review of Trump's Birthright Citizenship Challenge, Setting Stage for Constitutional Crisis
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · D. John Sauer · American Civil Liberties Union · +5 | disputed | |
| 2025-12-05 | Trump Official Signals Rollback of Census Racial Categories to Erase Marginalized Communities from Federal Data
5 src Mark Calabria · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Census Bureau · Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-12-04 | DOJ Orders Prison Auditors to Eliminate PREA Rape Protections for Transgender Inmates
5 src Department of Justice · Bureau of Justice Assistance · Bureau of Prisons · American Civil Liberties Union · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-03 | Veterans Affairs Creates Database of Non-Citizen Employees for Deportation Targeting
4 src Doug Collins · Veterans Affairs · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-12-02 | USCIS Places Indefinite Adjudication Hold on Immigration Benefits for Nationals of Designated Countries (PM-602-0192), Expanded to 39 Countries on Jan 1
5 src U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-28 | Trump Announces 'Permanent Pause' on Immigration from 'Third World Countries' Using Racist Terminology
4 src Donald Trump · Joseph Edlow · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-10-15 | Supreme Court Reargues Louisiana v. Callais, Threatens Voting Rights Act
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Louisiana · American Civil Liberties Union · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-05 | Border Patrol Agent Shoots US Citizen Marimar Martinez Five Times in Chicago During 'Operation Midway Blitz'
3 src Marimar Martinez · Charles Exum · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-26 | FBI Director Patel Fires 15-20 Agents Photographed Kneeling at 2020 George Floyd Protests
2 src Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · FBI Agents Association · Christopher Wray | reported | |
| 2025-09-23 | Hegseth Terminates 74-Year-Old Women's Military Advisory Committee, Citing 'Divisive Feminist Agenda'
2 src Pete Hegseth · DACOWITS · U.S. Department of Defense | reported | |
| 2025-09-22 | DOJ Eliminates Consumer Protection Branch, Guts Civil Rights Division Enforcement
4 src Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · DOJ Civil Division | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | ICE detention reaches 59,000 people at 140% capacity with 70% having no criminal record
5 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-11 | Federal judge orders stop to "indiscriminate" ICE raids in Los Angeles
3 src Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · U.S. District Court Central District of California · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-23 | Supreme Court 6-3 Allows Third-Country Deportations Without Due Process
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Sonia Sotomayor | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-20 | National Legal Resistance Training and Certification Program
3 src National Lawyers Guild · Center for Constitutional Rights · Law School Consortium | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Legal Resistance Technology Platform Launch
3 src Lawyers for Good Government · Traci Feit Love · Paladin · Kristen Sonday · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-21 | Allegheny County Courthouse ICE Arrest Handoff Protocol Activated as ICE Begins Targeting Pittsburgh Courts
4 src Susan Evashavik DiLucente · Kevin Kraus · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Allegheny County Sheriff's Office · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Department of Education Issues "Dear Colleague Letter" Requiring Universities to Certify No DEI Programs or Lose Federal Funding
5 src Department of Education · Office for Civil Rights · General Services Administration · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-12 | EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Eliminates Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights
5 src Lee Zeldin · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Education Department Civil Rights Division Slashed from 550 to 243 Employees
3 src U.S. Department of Education · Russell Vought · Office for Civil Rights | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Transgender Military Service, Reversing Biden Policy 2 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-22 | DOJ Orders Complete Freeze on All Civil Rights Division Cases and Enforcement
3 src Department of Justice · Chad Mizelle · Kathleen Wolfe (Acting Civil Rights Division Head) · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Trump Signs EO 14173 'Ending Illegal Discrimination' — Foundational Anti-DEI Order Requiring Federal Contractor Certification
6 src Donald Trump · Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs EO 14168: 'Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism,' Mandating Federal Recognition of Only Two Sexes
6 src Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Education · Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Young Black Lawyers Organizing Coalition (YBLOC) Legal Resistance Summit
3 src Abdul Dosunmu · Marc Morial · Clarence Okoh · Jessica Paige · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-30 | Guidance to Georgia officials on mass voter challenges
3 src Campaign Legal Center · ACLU of Georgia · Brennan Center for Justice · Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | Chicago Terminates ShotSpotter Contract After Years of Criticism
3 src Brandon Johnson · ShotSpotter · Chicago Police Department | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Allows Religious Exemptions from Anti-Discrimination Laws in 303 Creative v. Elenis
9 src U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Neil Gorsuch · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · +12 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in College Admissions in Students for Fair Admissions Decisions
12 src U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +12 | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-15 | ShotSpotter Accuracy Crisis - Chicago Inspector General Report and Williams Case
3 src ShotSpotter · Michael Williams · Chicago Police Department | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-15 | PredPol Rebrands as Geolitica Amid Mounting Criticism of Racial Bias
3 src PredPol · Geolitica | confirmed | |
| 2020-07-04 | BORTAC Border Patrol Tactical Units Deployed Against Portland BLM Protesters | ||
| 2020-06-09 | FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dataminr · NYPD · LAPD · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-01 | Academic Studies Document PredPol's Racial Bias and Ineffectiveness
3 src PredPol · LAPD | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-20 | Law Enforcement Attacks Standing Rock Protesters With Water Cannons in Subfreezing Temperatures
4 src Morton County Sheriff's Department · Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Mandan Rural Fire Department · Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-11 | ACLU Exposes Geofeedia's Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Social Media Platforms
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · Geofeedia · Twitter · Facebook · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-01 | Chicago Police Launch Strategic Subject List "Heat List" Predictive Policing Program
3 src Chicago Police Department | confirmed | |
| 2012-06-01 | New Orleans Police Launch Secret Palantir Predictive Policing Program
3 src NOPD · Palantir Technologies · Mitch Landrieu · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-13 | Major Corporate Exodus from ALEC: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kraft, McDonald's, Wendy's, Mars, and Intuit Drop Membership After Public Pressure Campaign
3 src Color of Change · Coca-Cola · PepsiCo · Kraft Foods · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2011-09-01 | LAPD Launches Operation LASER Predictive Policing Program with Palantir
3 src LAPD · Palantir Technologies · Craig Uchida · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-23 | Grutter v. Bollinger - Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action but Sets 25-Year Limit
3 src Justice Sandra Day O'Connor · Justice Clarence Thomas · University of Michigan Law School · Lee Bollinger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1992-06-13 | Clinton Uses 'Sister Souljah Moment' to Distance Democrats from Black Community
4 src Bill Clinton · Sister Souljah · Jesse Jackson · Rainbow Coalition · +1 | 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 | |
| 1978-03-06 | DOJ Returns to Court: Trump Violated 1975 Discrimination Settlement
3 src Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn | confirmed | |
| 1977-10-12 | Community Reinvestment Act Passed to Combat Redlining, Banking Industry Resists
3 src President Jimmy Carter · Senator William Proxmire · American Bankers Association · Federal Reserve · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1975-06-10 | Trump Settles Housing Discrimination Case Without Admitting Guilt
3 src Donald Trump · Fred Trump · Roy Cohn | confirmed | |
| 1974-07-25 | Milliken v. Bradley - Supreme Court Blocks Cross-District School Desegregation, Entrenches White Flight
3 src Chief Justice Warren Burger · Justice Thurgood Marshall · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +1 | 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 Justice Lewis Powell · Justice Thurgood Marshall · Demetrio Rodriguez · Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1971-03-08 | COINTELPRO Exposed - FBI's Secret War on Civil Rights and Dissent Revealed
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · J. Edgar Hoover · Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI | confirmed | |
| 1969-12-04 | FBI and Chicago Police Assassinate Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton in Pre-Dawn Raid
3 src Fred Hampton · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Chicago Police Department · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1968-04-11 | Fair Housing Act Passes After MLK Assassination Overcomes National Association of Real Estate Boards Decades of Opposition
4 src President Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. · National Association of Real Estate Boards · National Association of Realtors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1968-04-04 | Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated in Memphis While Supporting Striking Sanitation Workers
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. · James Earl Ray · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Memphis Police | confirmed | |
| 1967-08-25 | FBI COINTELPRO Launches Black Nationalist Hate Groups Program Targeting Civil Rights Leaders
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Martin Luther King Jr. · Black Panther Party · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1966-10-15 | Black Panther Party Formation in Oakland Triggers Immediate FBI COINTELPRO Surveillance and State Repression
4 src Bobby Seale · Huey P. Newton · FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover · California State Legislature | confirmed | |
| 1965-10-03 | Immigration and Nationality Act Abolishes National Origins Quota System After Defeating Conservative Opposition
3 src President Lyndon B. Johnson · Senator Philip Hart · Representative Emanuel Celler · Senator James Eastland · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1965-09-09 | HUD Created as Cabinet Department, Inherits FHA Discriminatory Practices
3 src President Lyndon B. Johnson · Robert C. Weaver · National Association of Home Builders · National Association of Real Estate Boards | confirmed | |
| 1965-08-06 | Voting Rights Act Signed After Selma Bloody Sunday Defeats Southern Legislative Resistance
6 src President Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. · John Lewis · Southern Democratic Senators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1965-04-11 | Elementary and Secondary Education Act Establishes Federal Role in Education Funding
3 src President Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress · National Education Association | confirmed | |
| 1965-03-11 | Reverend James Reeb Dies After White Supremacist Attack in Selma, Killers Acquitted by All-White Jury
3 src James Reeb · Elmer Cook · William Stanley Hoggle · Namon O'Neal Hoggle · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1965-03-07 | Alabama State Troopers Attack Voting Rights Marchers on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Bloody Sunday
3 src John Lewis · Hosea Williams · Alabama State Troopers · Amelia Boynton · +1 | 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. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1964-07-02 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 Passes After Filibuster Defeats Corporate Southern Resistance
3 src President Lyndon B. Johnson · Southern Democratic Senators · Richard Russell · Strom Thurmond · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1964-06-21 | Mississippi Burning Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner During Freedom Summer Voter Registration
3 src James Chaney · Andrew Goodman · Michael Schwerner · Ku Klux Klan · +6 | confirmed | |
| 1964-06-10 | Senate Invokes Cloture to End 72-Day Filibuster Against Civil Rights Act for First Time in History
3 src Southern Democratic Caucus · Richard Russell · Robert Byrd · Hubert Humphrey · +1 | 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 | |
| 1963-10-10 | Attorney General Robert Kennedy Authorizes FBI Wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr.
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Robert F. Kennedy · Martin Luther King Jr. · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1963-09-15 | KKK Bombs 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Killing Four Young Girls
3 src Ku Klux Klan · Robert Chambliss · Thomas Blanton · Bobby Frank Cherry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1963-08-28 | March on Washington Draws 250,000 for Jobs and Freedom as MLK Delivers I Have a Dream Speech
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. · Bayard Rustin · A. Philip Randolph · John F. Kennedy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1963-05-03 | Bull Connor Orders Fire Hoses and Police Dogs Against Children in Birmingham Campaign
3 src Bull Connor · Martin Luther King Jr. · James Bevel · Birmingham Police · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1961-05-14 | Freedom Riders Firebombed in Anniston as Police Allow KKK Attack Without Intervention
3 src Congress of Racial Equality · Bull Connor · Robert Kennedy · Ku Klux Klan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1960-05-06 | Civil Rights Act of 1960: Voting Referees and Criminal Penalties Still Prove Inadequate Against Southern Resistance
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Lyndon B. Johnson · Southern Democrats · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1960-02-01 | Greensboro Four Launch Sit-In Movement at Woolworth Lunch Counter Challenging Segregation
3 src Ezell Blair Jr. · David Richmond · Franklin McCain · Joseph McNeil · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1959-06-26 | Prince Edward County Virginia Closes Entire Public School System for Five Years Rather Than Integrate
3 src Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors · Virginia General Assembly · Harry Byrd | confirmed | |
| 1957-09-24 | Eisenhower Sends Federal Troops to Little Rock After Governor Uses National Guard Against Integration
3 src Orval Faubus · Dwight D. Eisenhower · Little Rock Nine · 101st Airborne Division · +1 | 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 · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1956-11-13 | Supreme Court Affirms Montgomery Bus Segregation Unconstitutional, Boycott Ends in Victory
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. · Rosa Parks · E.D. Nixon · Jo Ann Robinson · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1956-02-06 | University of Alabama Expels Autherine Lucy After White Mob Violence, First Black Student Barred
3 src Autherine Lucy · University of Alabama · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1955-12-01 | Rosa Parks Arrested for Refusing to Give Up Bus Seat Sparking Montgomery Bus Boycott
3 src Rosa Parks · Martin Luther King Jr. · Montgomery Improvement Association · E.D. Nixon · +1 | confirmed |