1948
7 verified events recorded in 1948.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-08-03 | Alger Hiss Testifies Before HUAC as Whittaker Chambers Accuses Him of Espionage Alger Hiss · Whittaker Chambers · Richard Nixon · House Un-American Activities Committee | confirmed | |
| 1948-07-26 | Executive Order 9981 Desegregates U.S. Military - Truman Repudiates 170 Years of Discrimination Harry S. Truman · Isaac Woodard · President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity · Omar Bradley · +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 | |
| 1948-06-17 | Robert Moses Begins Cross-Bronx Expressway: Deliberate Destruction of Stable Communities to Build Car Infrastructure Robert Moses · New York City | confirmed | |
| 1948-05-03 | Supreme Court Rules Racially Restrictive Housing Covenants Unenforceable U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Fred Vinson · NAACP Legal Defense Fund | confirmed | |
| 1948-04-03 | Marshall Plan Begins - $13 Billion Aid Program Benefits American Exporters and Defense Industry George Marshall · Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · European Recovery Program | confirmed | |
| 1948-01-27 | Smith-Mundt Act Authorizes State Department Propaganda Apparatus - Voice of America Expands Harry S. Truman · Karl E. Mundt · U.S. Congress · State Department · +1 | confirmed |