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#Civil-Rights

Events indexed under #Civil-Rights — 124 entries in the record.

124 events From Jul 19, 1848 To May 10, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
1955-08-28Emmett Till Murdered in Mississippi After Accusation from White Woman 3 src
Roy Bryant · J.W. Milam · Mamie Till · Tallahatchie County Sheriff
confirmed
1955-05-31Brown II Orders Desegregation with "All Deliberate Speed," Enabling Decade of Resistance 3 src
Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall · +1
confirmed
1954-07-11White Citizens' Councils Pioneer Economic Collective Punishment in Yazoo City Mississippi
1954-06-17Operation Wetback: Mass Deportation Campaign Removes Over One Million Ethnic Mexicans
1954-05-17Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision Declares School Segregation Unconstitutional 3 src
Earl Warren · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · U.S. Supreme Court
confirmed
1953-08-13Eisenhower Executive Order 10479 Creates Committee on Government Contracts, Weak Anti-Discrimination Enforcement 3 src
Dwight D. Eisenhower · Richard Nixon · Government Contract Committee · NAACP
confirmed
1948-07-26Executive Order 9981 Desegregates U.S. Military - Truman Repudiates 170 Years of Discrimination 3 src
Harry S. Truman · Isaac Woodard · President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity · Omar Bradley · +1
confirmed
1944-07-17Port Chicago Disaster and Black Sailors Mutiny Conviction 3 src
U.S. Navy · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP · Port Chicago 50 · +1
confirmed
1944-04-03Smith v. Allwright: Supreme Court Strikes Down White Primaries, Opening Democratic Party to Black Voters 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Stanley Reed · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +2
confirmed
1943-06-20Detroit Race Riot Exposes Housing Segregation and War Production Tensions 3 src
Detroit Police Department · Federal troops · Detroit housing authority · War production workers · +1
confirmed
1931-03-03Harlon Carter Age 17 Shoots and Kills 15-Year-Old Ramón Casiano in Laredo Texas
1923-01-01Rosewood Massacre Destroys Entire Black Florida Town Following False Accusation
1921-06-01Tulsa Race Massacre Destroys Black Wall Street in Largest Single Act of Racial Collective Punishment
1919-07-27Red Summer: Chicago Race Riot Erupts as White Mobs Attack Black Neighborhoods, 38 Killed 3 src
Chicago Police Department · Irish American athletic clubs · Black Great Migration communities · Governor Frank Lowden · +1
confirmed
1918-01-28Porvenir Massacre: Texas Rangers and Army Execute 15 Unarmed Mexican American Men
1917-11-05Buchanan v. Warley: Supreme Court Strikes Down Racial Zoning, Property Rights Trump Civil Rights 3 src
Supreme Court of the United States · NAACP · Moorfield Storey · Louisville, Kentucky
confirmed
1915-06-21Guinn v. United States: Supreme Court Strikes Down Grandfather Clauses as Fifteenth Amendment Violation 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Edward White · Oklahoma Legislature · NAACP
confirmed
1913-04-11Wilson Administration Segregates Federal Government: Jim Crow Comes to Washington 3 src
President Woodrow Wilson · Postmaster General Albert Burleson · Treasury Secretary William McAdoo · NAACP · +2
confirmed
1912-10-01Forsyth County Georgia Ethnic Cleansing Drives Out Entire Black Population
1910-01-01Texas Rangers Conduct "La Matanza" Killing 300-5,000 Ethnic Mexicans Along Border
1898-11-10Wilmington Coup d'État Overthrows Elected Biracial Government Through Mass Racial Violence
1892-06-25Ida B. Wells Publishes "Southern Horrors" Documenting Lynching as Collective Punishment System
1871-04-20Congressional Hearings on KKK Terrorism During Reconstruction Reveal Systematic Collective Punishment
1848-07-19Seneca Falls Convention Launches Women's Rights Movement with Declaration of Sentiments 3 src
Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Lucretia Mott · Frederick Douglass · Jane Hunt · +2
confirmed