Many northern states had abolished slavery by the end of the 18th century, but the institution was absolutely vital to the South, where Black people constituted a large minority of the population and the economy relied on the production of crops like tobacco and cotton. Congressoutlawedthe import...
This civil rights movement timeline covers the struggle's final years, including the rise of black power, the Voting Rights Act, and urban riots.
In this clip from "The Politics of Addiction," Bill examines the failure of the war on drugs, the racial divide in sentencing and how America's drug policies are "divorced from reality." — March 1998 1999 Campaign Cash Reforms In 1999, several bills intended to advance the cause of campa...
Jan 25 2017:Sereno issuesa statement on the war on drugs given the results of the World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index:“Despite all of the positive things (gains in judicial reforms) and even greater potential gains, we have to face the reality of the daily accounts of unsolved...
The era of chemotherapy began in the 1940s with the first uses of nitrogen mustards and antifolate drugs. Cancer drug development since then has transformed from a low-budget, government-supported research effort to a high-stakes, multi-billion dollar industry. The targeted-therapy revolution has...
Edgar Ray Killen, the architect of the 1964 Chaney-Goodman-Schwerner murders, is convicted on manslaughter charges and sentenced to 60 years in prison. Sources and Further Information Chalmers, David Mark. "Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan." 3rd ed. Durham NC: Duke Universi...
In June 1971, Nixon officially declared a “War on Drugs,” stating that drug abuse was “public enemy number one.” A rise in recreational drug use in the 1960s likely led to President Nixon’s focus on targeting some types of substance abuse. As part of the War on Drugs initiative, ...
-14000?Human civilization encounters the Insect Civilization in the Light Universe and the Insect War breaks out. It rages until the Insects are obliterated.[3] The Brunnen-G begin to unlock the secrets of Insects, for a time creating a hybrid technology based on some of the parasite species...
What follows is a complete Fallout timeline of all events from every game. The Fallout world is not our own, but rather one that has diverged from ours soon after World War II. So, while it takes place in the future, it is not our future, but a future as
timeline: 1832–2017xii1887War breaks out between Ethiopia and Italy.President Grover Cleveland signs the Interstate Commerce Act, regulating railroads.Celluloid nitrate film is invented.1888Inventor Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince shoots a short film of traffic on a bridge in Leeds, England; the film...