August 11, 1965 - The Watts race riots in Los Angeles begin a five day siege, culminating in the death of thirty-four people and property destruction in excess of $200 million. October 15, 1965 - The first public burning of a draft card occurs in protest to the Vietnam War. It is ...
April 13, 1943 - The Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. is dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. June 21, 1943 - Race riots in Detroit and Harlem cause forty deaths and seven hundred injuries. ...
From May to October 1919, a number of race riots erupt in cities throughout the United States. In response,James Weldon Johnson(1871–1938), a prominent leader in the NAACP, organizes peaceful protests. 1930–1939 From left to right, the accused "Scottsboro Boys" are: Clarence Norris, Olen...
August 15–22:Race riots in Cincinnati erupt "when gangs of white residents (begin) attacking Black residents in the street and (descend) on their homes," according to the Zinn Education Project. The riots result in more than half the Black residents in the city being forced out of town. ...
Constitution, struggles to secure federal protection of these rights continued during the next century. Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s broke the pattern of public facilities’ being segregated by “race” in the South and achieved the most important ...
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has inspired all the human race. And upon this ground our Constitution of Government, by which the people of this Commonwealth have solemnly bound themselves, sets out with declaring that all men are born free and equal—and that every subject is entitled to liberty, and to have it guarded ...
was a widespread practice. A wave of race riots—particularly one in Springfield, Illinois in 1908—lent a sense of urgency to theNiagara Movementand its supporters, who in 1909 joined their agenda with that of a new permanent civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancemen...
(Watts, Calif.) Race riots erupt in a Black section of Los Angeles. September 24, 1965: Johnson's Executive Order 11246 Asserting that civil rights laws alone are not enough to remedy discrimination,President Johnsonissues Executive Order 11246, which enforces affirmative action for the first tim...
2 NOVEMBERThe Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidgedefeats Democrats James M. Cox and Franklin Roosevelt in theU.S. presidential election.■■■192131 MAY–1 JUNERace riots in Tulsa, Oklahoma.14 JULYItalian immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco and BartolomeoVanzetti are convicted o...