| 1963-10-10 | Attorney General Robert Kennedy Authorizes FBI Wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr.
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Martin Luther King Jr. · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1963-05-03 | Bull Connor Orders Fire Hoses and Police Dogs Against Children in Birmingham Campaign
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. | | confirmed |
| 1961-05-14 | Freedom Riders Firebombed in Anniston as Police Allow KKK Attack Without Intervention
3 src Ku Klux Klan | | confirmed |
| 1959-06-26 | Prince Edward County Virginia Closes Entire Public School System for Five Years Rather Than Integrate
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1957-09-24 | Eisenhower Sends Federal Troops to Little Rock After Governor Uses National Guard Against Integration
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower | | confirmed |
| 1956-08-28 | FBI Director Hoover Launches COINTELPRO to Target Communist Party and Domestic Dissent
6 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Communist Party USA |
| confirmed |
| 1955-12-01 | Rosa Parks Arrested for Refusing to Give Up Bus Seat Sparking Montgomery Bus Boycott
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. | | confirmed |
| 1955-08-28 | Emmett Till Murdered in Mississippi After Accusation from White Woman
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1955-05-31 | Brown 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1954-05-17 | Brown 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 |
| 1877-02-26 | Compromise of 1877: Wormley Agreement Abandons Black Americans
3 src Rutherford B. Hayes · Southern Democrats |
| confirmed |
| 1876-07-08 | Hamburg Massacre: Red Shirts Murder Black Militia to Suppress Voting
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 1873-04-14 | Slaughterhouse Cases Gut Fourteenth Amendment Protections
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Louisiana Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1873-04-13 | Colfax Massacre: 150 Black Americans Murdered to Overthrow Local Government
4 src Ku Klux Klan |
| confirmed |
| 1868-07-09 | Fourteenth Amendment Ratified: Corporate Hijacking Begins
3 src U.S. Congress · Louisiana Legislature · South Carolina Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1868-02-24 | Andrew Johnson Impeached for Obstructing Reconstruction
4 src Andrew Johnson · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 1859-10-16 | John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid Exposes Slave Power's Armed Defense of Institutional Capture
3 src John Brown · James Buchanan · U.S. Marines | | confirmed |
| 1858-08-21 | Lincoln-Douglas Debates Expose Popular Sovereignty as Slavery Expansion Vehicle
3 src Abraham Lincoln · Stephen A. Douglas · Republican Party · Democratic Party | | confirmed |
| 1858-01-04 | Kansas Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Lecompton Constitution Despite Buchanan Bribery
3 src James Buchanan · Stephen A. Douglas | | confirmed |
| 1855-03-30 | Border Ruffians Steal Kansas Election Through Systematic Fraud and Violence
3 src Franklin Pierce | | confirmed |
| 1853-03-04 | Pierce Inauguration Falsely Claims Slavery Question Settled While Planning Expansion
3 src Franklin Pierce · Stephen A. Douglas · Democratic Party | | confirmed |
| 1852-11-02 | Pierce Elected in Slave Power Landslide as Whig Party Collapses Over Slavery
3 src Franklin Pierce · Democratic Party · Whig Party | | confirmed |
| 1840-11-02 | Log Cabin Campaign Uses Image Manipulation and Corruption Attacks to Defeat Van Buren
3 src Martin Van Buren · Whig Party | | confirmed |
| 1834-03-28 | Senate Censures Jackson for Pet Banks Scheme and Constitutional Overreach
3 src Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1826-01-01 | Jefferson Denounces Corrupt Bargain as Betrayal of Democratic Principles
3 src Thomas Jefferson · Andrew Jackson · Democratic-Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1825-02-09 | Corrupt Bargain Elevates Adams to Presidency Through House Backroom Deal
3 src John Quincy Adams · Henry Clay · Andrew Jackson · U.S. House of Representatives | | confirmed |
| 1824-02-09 | House Elects John Quincy Adams in "Corrupt Bargain" After Clay Throws Support, Ending Era of Good Feelings
3 src John Quincy Adams · Henry Clay · Andrew Jackson · U.S. House of Representatives | | confirmed |
| 1821-08-10 | Missouri Compromise Finalizes Slave State Expansion After Racial Exclusion Crisis
3 src U.S. Congress · James Monroe · Henry Clay | | confirmed |
| 1814-12-15 | Hartford Convention Federalist Secession Threat Establishes Nullification Precedent
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1798-07-14 | Alien and Sedition Acts Criminalize Political Dissent and Democratic Opposition
3 src John Adams · Federalist Party | | confirmed |