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— 19 entries in the record.
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Feb 8, 1915
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Oct 22, 2018
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1915 · 3 events
1946 · 1 event
1948 · 1 event
1967 · 1 event
1968 · 1 event
1976 · 1 event
1980 · 1 event
1981 · 1 event
1988 · 1 event
1990 · 1 event
1992 · 1 event
1994 · 1 event
2011 · 1 event
2015 · 1 event
2017 · 1 event
2018 · 2 events
1915
2018
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Event
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2018-10-22
Trump Adopts 'Invasion' Rhetoric Mainstreaming Great Replacement Theory Before Midterms
Donald Trump · Republican Party
confirmed
2018-01-11
Trump Calls Haiti and African Nations 'Shithole Countries' in Bipartisan Immigration Meeting
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
Donald Trump · MS-13
confirmed
2015-06-16
Trump Launches Presidential Campaign Calling Mexican Immigrants 'Rapists' and Criminals
Donald Trump
confirmed
2011-04-27
Trump's Birtherism Campaign Forces Obama to Release Long-Form Birth Certificate
Donald Trump · Barack Obama
confirmed
1994-11-08
California Proposition 187 Passes 59-41, Galvanizes Latino Voter Mobilization
Pete Wilson · California voters · Latino civil rights organizations · American Civil Liberties Union
confirmed
1992-06-13
Clinton Uses 'Sister Souljah Moment' to Distance Democrats from Black Community
Bill Clinton · Sister Souljah · Jesse Jackson · Rainbow Coalition · +1
confirmed
1990-10-29
Jesse Helms 'White Hands' Ad Weaponizes Affirmative Action Against Black Senate Candidate
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
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
Lee Atwater · Alexander Lamis · Republican Party
confirmed
1980-08-03
Reagan Launches General Election Campaign with 'States' Rights' Speech Near Civil Rights Murder Site
Ronald Reagan · Republican Party
confirmed
1976-01-27
Reagan Launches 'Welfare Queen' Attack Using Racially Coded Chicago Fraud Story
Ronald Reagan · Linda Taylor
confirmed
1968-11-05
Nixon Wins Presidency Using Southern Strategy Based on Racial Resentment
Richard Nixon · Kevin Phillips · H.R. Haldeman · George Wallace · +1
confirmed
1967-07-28
Reagan Signs Mulford Act Gun Control Law With NRA Support to Disarm Black Panthers Armed Patrols
Governor Ronald Reagan · Don Mulford · National Rifle Association · Black Panther Party · +1
confirmed
1948-07-17
Dixiecrat Revolt - Strom Thurmond Leads Segregationist Walkout After Democratic Civil Rights Platform
Strom Thurmond · Fielding L. Wright · States Rights Democratic Party · Democratic Party · +2
confirmed
1946-05-01
Operation Dixie Launched to Unionize the South, Met with Violent Corporate Resistance
Congress of Industrial Organizations · Van Bittner · George Baldanzi · United Auto Workers · +5
confirmed
1915-11-25
KKK Revived at Stone Mountain Cross Burning: Simmons Coordinates with Birth of a Nation Premiere
William J. Simmons · Ku Klux Klan · D.W. Griffith
confirmed
1915-08-17
Leo Frank Lynched by Antisemitic Mob After Governor Commutes Sentence: Only Jewish Lynching in U.S. History
Leo Frank · William J. Simmons · Knights of Mary Phagan · Georgia Governor
confirmed
1915-02-08
Birth of a Nation Premieres in Los Angeles: Groundbreaking Film Glorifies KKK, Depicts Black Americans as Evil
D.W. Griffith · Woodrow Wilson · William J. Simmons · Ku Klux Klan
confirmed