1954
13 verified events recorded in 1954.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-12-02 | Senate Votes 67-22 to Censure Joseph McCarthy Ending Four Years of Terror Joseph McCarthy · Ralph Flanders · Arthur Watkins · Margaret Chase Smith | confirmed | |
| 1954-09-01 | Communist Control Act Bans Party Members from Union Leadership, Weaponizing Anti-Communism Against Labor U.S. Congress · Dwight D. Eisenhower · House Un-American Activities Committee · American Federation of Labor · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1954-08-02 | Housing Act of 1954 Expands Urban Renewal, Intensifies Destruction of Black Communities Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Urban Renewal Administration · Real estate industry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1954-07-11 | White Citizens' Councils Founded With Business Elite Backing to Resist Integration Robert B. Patterson · Tom P. Brady · White Citizens' Councils · Mississippi business class · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1954-06-27 | CIA Operation PBSUCCESS Overthrows Guatemalan Democracy, Protects United Fruit Company Interests Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles · United Fruit Company · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1954-06-17 | Operation Wetback Mass Deportation Uses Military Tactics, Human Rights Violations Dwight D. Eisenhower · Joseph May Swing · Herbert Brownell · Immigration and Naturalization Service | confirmed | |
| 1954-06-09 | Joseph Welch Confronts McCarthy with Have You No Sense of Decency in Army Hearings Joseph Welch · Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn · G. David Schine | confirmed | |
| 1954-05-17 | Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision Declares School Segregation Unconstitutional Earl Warren · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 1954-04-22 | Army-McCarthy Hearings Begin as Military Charges Senator with Improper Pressure for Aide Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn · Robert Stevens · Joseph Welch · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1954-04-12 | AEC Security Hearing Against Oppenheimer Begins Targeting Manhattan Project Director J. Robert Oppenheimer · Lewis Strauss · Gordon Gray · J. Edgar Hoover · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1954-02-26 | Bricker Amendment Fails by One Vote, Conservative Attempt to Limit Treaty Power Defeated John Bricker · Dwight D. Eisenhower · American Bar Association · U.S. Senate · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1954-01-01 | Eisenhower Convenes Business Leaders to Create Public Affairs Council for Political Mobilization Dwight D. Eisenhower · Public Affairs Council · Effective Citizens Organization | confirmed | |
| 1954-01-01 | Union Membership Reaches Peak of 35% of Workforce, Enabling Shared Prosperity American workers · AFL-CIO · United Auto Workers · United Steelworkers · +1 | confirmed |