| 2026-05-07 | Tennessee Governor Signs GOP Gerrymander Dismantling Sole Majority-Black Congressional District, Dividing Memphis Three Ways
4 src Governor Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Representative Steve Cohen · Donald Trump · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-08 | DHS Secretary Noem Unveils "One of Ours, All of Yours" Collective Punishment Doctrine at One World Trade Center | | |
| 2018-01-11 | Trump Calls Haiti and African Nations 'Shithole Countries' in Bipartisan Immigration Meeting
4 src Donald Trump · Dick Durbin · U.N. Human Rights Office · African Union | | confirmed |
| 2017-07-28 | Trump Weaponizes MS-13 Gang to Demonize Central American Immigrants and Justify Mass Deportations
4 src Donald Trump · MS-13 | | confirmed |
| 2015-06-17 | White Supremacist Dylann Roof Murders Nine Black Worshippers at Historic Charleston Church - Confederate Flag Controversy Exposes South Carolina's Institutional Racism
4 src Dylann Roof · Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church · Clementa C. Pinckney · Nikki Haley · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2015-06-16 | Trump Launches Presidential Campaign Calling Mexican Immigrants 'Rapists' and Criminals
4 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2011-04-27 | Trump's Birtherism Campaign Forces Obama to Release Long-Form Birth Certificate
4 src Donald Trump · Barack Obama | | confirmed |
| 1990-10-29 | Jesse Helms 'White Hands' Ad Weaponizes Affirmative Action Against Black Senate Candidate
3 src Jesse Helms · Harvey Gantt · Alex Castellanos · Carter Wrenn · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1988-09-21 | Bush Campaign Deploys Willie Horton Ad Weaponizing Racial Fear of Black Criminals
4 src George H.W. Bush · Lee Atwater · Roger Ailes · Larry McCarthy · +3 | | confirmed |
| 1981-11-13 | Lee Atwater's Recorded Confession Explains Evolution of Racial Dog Whistle Politics
3 src Lee Atwater · Alexander Lamis · Republican Party | | 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 |
| 1976-01-27 | Reagan Launches 'Welfare Queen' Attack Using Racially Coded Chicago Fraud Story
4 src Ronald Reagan · Linda Taylor | | confirmed |
| 1971-06-17 | Nixon Declares Drug Abuse "Public Enemy Number One"
3 src Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman | | confirmed |
| 1968-11-05 | Nixon Wins Presidency Using Southern Strategy Based on Racial Resentment
3 src Richard Nixon · Kevin Phillips · H.R. Haldeman · George Wallace · +1 | | 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 |
| 1968-03-01 | Kerner Commission Report Identifying White Racism as Riot Cause Rejected by LBJ and Ignored Sparking Law-and-Order Backlash
4 src Kerner Commission · Governor Otto Kerner Jr. · President Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon |
| 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 |
| 1964-06-21 | 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 |
| 1963-09-15 | 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 |
| 1960-02-01 | 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 |
| 1956-06-29 | Federal-Aid Highway Act Creates Interstate System, Enables Destruction of Black Urban Neighborhoods
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Bureau of Public Roads · General Motors · +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 |
| 1955-08-28 | Emmett Till Murdered in Mississippi After Accusation from White Woman
3 src Roy Bryant · J.W. Milam · Mamie Till · Tallahatchie County Sheriff | | confirmed |
| 1954-08-02 | Housing Act of 1954 Expands Urban Renewal, Intensifies Destruction of Black Communities
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Urban Renewal Administration · Real estate industry · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1954-07-11 | White Citizens' Councils Pioneer Economic Collective Punishment in Yazoo City Mississippi | | |
| 1954-06-17 | Operation Wetback: Mass Deportation Campaign Removes Over One Million Ethnic Mexicans | | |
| 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 |
| 1944-07-17 | Port Chicago Disaster and Black Sailors Mutiny Conviction
3 src U.S. Navy · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP · Port Chicago 50 · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1943-06-20 | Detroit Race Riot Exposes Housing Segregation and War Production Tensions
3 src Detroit Police Department · Federal troops · Detroit housing authority · War production workers · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1931-03-03 | Harlon Carter Age 17 Shoots and Kills 15-Year-Old Ramón Casiano in Laredo Texas | | |
| 1927-05-02 | Supreme Court Endorses Forced Sterilization in Buck v. Bell Eugenics Decision
3 src Oliver Wendell Holmes · Carrie Buck · Harry Laughlin · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1927-04-21 | Great Mississippi Flood Exposes Racial Labor Exploitation and Plantation System
3 src Herbert Hoover · LeRoy Percy · Red Cross · National Guard | | confirmed |
| 1924-05-28 | U.S. Border Patrol Founded Staffed by Former Klansmen and Texas Rangers | | |
| 1923-01-01 | Rosewood Massacre Destroys Entire Black Florida Town Following False Accusation | | |
| 1921-06-01 | Tulsa Race Massacre Destroys Black Wall Street in Largest Single Act of Racial Collective Punishment | | |
| 1918-01-28 | Porvenir Massacre: Texas Rangers and Army Execute 15 Unarmed Mexican American Men | | |
| 1913-04-11 | Wilson 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 |
| 1912-10-01 | Forsyth County Georgia Ethnic Cleansing Drives Out Entire Black Population | | |
| 1910-01-01 | Texas Rangers Conduct "La Matanza" Killing 300-5,000 Ethnic Mexicans Along Border | | |
| 1898-11-10 | Wilmington Coup d'État Overthrows Elected Biracial Government Through Mass Racial Violence | | |
| 1892-06-25 | Ida B. Wells Publishes "Southern Horrors" Documenting Lynching as Collective Punishment System | | |
| 1891-07-15 | Coal Creek War Begins: Miners Free Convict Laborers, Attack Lease System
3 src Tennessee Coal Mining Company · Knoxville Iron Company · Tennessee Miners · John P. Buchanan · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1883-10-15 | Civil Rights Cases Strike Down 1875 Act, Legitimizing Jim Crow
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Joseph P. Bradley · John Marshall Harlan |
| confirmed |
| 1874-12-07 | Vicksburg Massacre: White League Kills 150-300 Black Citizens, Overthrows Sheriff
3 src White League · Peter Crosby · Andrew J. Gilmer · Ulysses S. Grant |
| confirmed |
| 1871-04-20 | Congressional Hearings on KKK Terrorism During Reconstruction Reveal Systematic Collective Punishment | | |
| 1869-05-15 | Suffrage Movement Splits Over 15th Amendment as Stanton and Anthony Deploy Racist Rhetoric
3 src Susan B. Anthony · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Lucy Stone · Henry Blackwell · +3 | | confirmed |
| 1831-08-21 | Nat Turner Rebellion Triggers Brutal Repression and Tightening of Slave Codes Across the South
5 src Nat Turner · Virginia Legislature · Southern state governments · Enslaved population · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1790-03-26 | Naturalization Act Restricts Citizenship to Free White Persons Creating Racial Caste System
3 src First Congress · George Washington | | confirmed |