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#Racial-Injustice

Events indexed under #Racial-Injustice — 7 entries in the record.

7 events From May 29, 1865 To Mar 1, 1968 Open in filter view →
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1865 · 2 events1866 · 2 events1877 · 1 event1967 · 1 event1968 · 1 event18651968
DateEventLanesStatus
1968-03-01Kerner Commission Report Identifying White Racism as Riot Cause Rejected by LBJ and Ignored Sparking Law-and-Order Backlash
Kerner Commission · Governor Otto Kerner Jr. · President Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon
confirmed
1967-07-23Detroit Riots Accelerate Pre-Existing White Flight and Corporate Urban Disinvestment Pattern Creating Decades of Economic Decline
Detroit Police Department · Michigan National Guard · Insurance Industry · Corporate interests · +1
confirmed
1877-02-26Compromise of 1877: Wormley Agreement Abandons Black Americans
Rutherford B. Hayes · Southern Democrats · Northern Republicans · Disenfranchised Black Americans
confirmed
1866-02-19Johnson Vetoes Freedmen's Bureau Expansion, Sabotaging Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson · Lyman Trumbull · Republican Congress · Freedmen's Bureau
confirmed
1866-01-01Alabama Initiates Convict Leasing: Slavery by Another Name
Robert Patton (Alabama Governor) · Alabama State Legislature · Coal Mining Companies · Railroad companies
confirmed
1865-11-24Mississippi Enacts First Black Codes: Blueprint for Convict Leasing
Mississippi State Legislature · Governor William L. Sharkey · Southern planters
confirmed
1865-05-29Andrew Johnson Begins Mass Pardons of Confederate Leaders
Andrew Johnson · Confederate Leaders · Republican Congress
confirmed