Race Relations

By rylemennetti

  • Benjamin Franklin's petition

    Benjamin Franklin petitions Congress to abolish slavery.

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel

    Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" passionately advocates for end of slavery

  • U.S. citizenship

    Mexicans in New Mexico receive full U.S. citizenship after state’s admission to Union.

  • Bracero Program

    Bracero Program invites Mexican citizens to work temporarily in U.S.

  • Segregation in public schools

    In Brown v. Board of Education, Supreme Court unanimously rules segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

  • Martin Luther King Jr. speech

    250,000 people attend Washington to hear Martin Luther King Jr. deliver "I Have a Dream" speech.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin.

  • Immigrants working in U.S.

    President Bush proposes "guest worker" plan permitting undocumented immigrants working in U.S. to apply for temporary status

  • Sonia Sotomayor

    Sonia Sotomayor becomes first Latina Supreme Court justice.

  • Banning Muslim immigrants

    Federal courts halt enforcement of President Trump’s order effectively banning Muslim immigrants from seven countries.