racism timeline - Timeline

In Fall 1962, the University of Mississippi was the scene of violent riots in protest of James Meredith’s attempts to enroll as the segregated school’s first black student.

In April 1962, Ford T. Johnson, Jr. appeared in a Richmond, Virginia, city traffic court and was convicted of contempt because he refused to sit in the segregated courtroom's "Negro" section. Mr. Johnson was unaware of the segregated seating and first sat in a section reserved for whites.

In June 1963, Mary Hamilton, a field secretary for the Congress of Racial Equality in Alabama, was one of hundreds arrested during civil rights protests in Gadsden, Alabama.

In early 1965, civil rights groups including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference began concentrating on voter registration in Selma, Alabama -- a city with the lowest voter registration record in the state's Black Belt region.

On January 7, 1966, 250 black students staged a march through downtown Tuskegee to protest the recent murder of Samuel “Sammy” Younge Jr. The march ended with a rally on the steps of the local jail where Younge’s accused killer, Martin Segrest, was being held.

On January 27, 1967, Jefferson County sheriff deputies went to the home of Robert Lacey, a black father of six, because Mr. Lacey had failed to take the family dog to the veterinarian after it bit a neighborhood child.

2017 Progress: Federal courts halt enforcement of President Trump’s order effectively banning Muslim immigrants from seven countries. Regress:Trump signs revised order; stays silent in face of increasing violence against mosques; moves forward on Dakota Access Pipeline, Mexican border wall....

jul 28, 2014 Now ~ 5 years and 3 months ago African Americans are incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of whites.

~ 10 years ago Progress: Sonia Sotomayor becomes first Latina Supreme Court justice. Regress: Harvard professor, renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrested on suspicion of breaking and entering—at his own home.

A 2013 study confirmed that black men were much more likely to be arrested and incarcerated than white men, but also found that this disparity disappeared after accounting for self-reported violence and IQ.

Approximately 12–13% of the American population is African-American, but they make up 35% of jail inmates, and 37% of prison inmates of the 2.2 million male inmates as of 2014

African Americans are incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of whites.

A 2013 study confirmed that black men were much more likely to be arrested and incarcerated than white men, but also found that this disparity disappeared after accounting for self-reported violence and IQ.

Progress: President Bush proposes "guest worker" plan permitting undocumented immigrants working in U.S. to apply for temporary status... Regress: ...but allows U.S. Border Patrol agents to deport them with no hearing before immigration judge.

Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988.

Progress: In Loving v. Virginia, Supreme Court rules prohibiting interracial marriage unconstitutional. Regress: During "Long Hot Summer," race riots erupt across U.S., killing dozens, injuring thousands, setting stage for historic violence of 1968.

On January 9, 1961, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes registered at the University of Georgia, becoming the university's first African American students.