Year of record

1954

15 verified events recorded in 1954.

15 events From Jan 1, 1954 To Dec 2, 1954 Open in filter view →

Date	Event	Status
1954-12-02	Senate Votes 67-22 to Censure Joseph McCarthy Ending Four Years of Terror 3 src Joseph McCarthy	confirmed
1954-09-01	Communist Control Act Bans Party Members from Union Leadership, Weaponizing Anti-Communism Against Labor 3 src 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 3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress	confirmed
1954-07-11	White Citizens' Councils Founded With Business Elite Backing to Resist Integration 4 src White Citizens' Councils	confirmed
1954-07-11	White Citizens' Councils Pioneer Economic Collective Punishment in Yazoo City Mississippi
1954-06-27	CIA Operation PBSUCCESS Overthrows Guatemalan Democracy, Protects United Fruit Company Interests 3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles · Edward Bernays	confirmed
1954-06-17	Operation Wetback Mass Deportation Uses Military Tactics, Human Rights Violations 3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · Immigration and Naturalization Service	confirmed
1954-06-17	Operation Wetback: Mass Deportation Campaign Removes Over One Million Ethnic Mexicans
1954-06-09	Joseph Welch Confronts McCarthy with Have You No Sense of Decency in Army Hearings 3 src Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn	confirmed
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
1954-04-22	Army-McCarthy Hearings Begin as Military Charges Senator with Improper Pressure for Aide 3 src Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn · U.S. Army · Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations	confirmed
1954-04-12	AEC Security Hearing Against Oppenheimer Begins Targeting Manhattan Project Director 3 src J. Edgar Hoover	confirmed
1954-02-26	Bricker Amendment Fails by One Vote, Conservative Attempt to Limit Treaty Power Defeated 3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · American Bar Association · U.S. Senate · American Medical Association · +1	confirmed
1954-01-01	Eisenhower Convenes Business Leaders to Create Public Affairs Council for Political Mobilization 8 src Dwight D. Eisenhower	confirmed
1954-01-01	Union Membership Reaches Peak of 35% of Workforce, Enabling Shared Prosperity 2 src American workers · AFL-CIO · United Auto Workers · United Steelworkers	confirmed