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Recent Event Highlights: Arizona puts in place the strictest illegal immigration law yet, Hate crimes against Middle Eastern Americans are declared to have gone up 1600% in the days after 9/11, Vasudev Patel murdered in Texas because of post 9/11 racism, New Jersey releases a 91,000 page detailing racial profiling by law enforcement officers, NYPD shoot and kill African American Amadou Diallo. Four officers are acquitted, New Jersey police pull over and shoot four unarmed African American males, and 9 more...

Created by dsant on May 11, 2010

Last updated: 05/16/10 at 04:55 PM

• Arizona puts in place the strictest illegal immigration law yet
  2010

• Hate crimes against Middle Eastern Americans are declared to have gone up 1600% in the days after...
  2003

• Georgia changes their state flag so the Confederate flag is less conspicuous but Mississippi vote...
  2001

• 9/11 leads to racial profiling and discrimination towards Middle Eastern Americans
  2001

• Abdo Ali Ahmed murdered in California after receiving death threats for his race
  2001

• Adel Karas murdered in California because of post 9/11 racism
  2001

• Vasudev Patel murdered in Texas because of post 9/11 racism
  2001

• Ali Almansoop murdered in Michigan because of post 9/11 racism
  2001

• Waqar Hasan murdered in Texas because of post 9/11 racism
  2001

• Balbir Singh Sodhi murdered in Arizona by a man who claimed he wanted to kill all of the people ...
  2001

• Former KKK member Thomas Blanton Jr. is found guilty of the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church t...
  2001

• Four day race riot in Cincinnati after a police officer shoots an unarmed African American
  2001

• New Jersey releases a 91,000 page detailing racial profiling by law enforcement officers
  2000

• Colin Powell is appointed to Secretary of State becoming the highest-ranking African American pu...
  2000

• NYPD shoot and kill African American Amadou Diallo. Four officers are acquitted
  1999

• New Jersey police pull over and shoot four unarmed African American males
  1998

• James Byrd's brutal murder leads to support for national hate crime legislation
  1998

• Haitian Abner Louima is attacked and raped by NYPD (one convicted)
  1997

• Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
  1996

• Miami University of Ohio changes their name 'Redskins' to 'RedHawks'
  1996

• Hopwood v. Texas says that race cannot be a factor in admissions at University of Texas Law School
  1996

• California Civil Rights Initiative
  1996

• African American football star OJ Simpson is acquitted of murder
  1995

• Adarand Constructors, Inc v. Pena limits government affirmative action
  1995

• California's Propostion 187
  1994

• Alabama removes the Confederate flag from its state capitol
  1993

• Police who beat Rodney King are acquitted which leads to massive rioting in L.A.
  1992

• Civil Rights Act of 1991
  1991

• African American Rodney King severely beaten by LAP
  1991

• Clarence Thomas becomes the 2nd African American on the Supreme Court
  1991

• First reparation payment went out to victims of Japanese Internment
  1990

• American Indian Anti-Defamation Council formed
  1990

• Immigration Act of 1990
  1990

• Colin Powell is the first African American to be Joint Chiefs of Staff
  1989

• Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 to allow $50 million as reparations for Japanese In...
  1988

• United States v. Paradise requires Alabama to have a certain number of black state troopers
  1987

• Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
  1986

• Government states that there was no need for Japanese Internment (that they were wrong)
  1983

• The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians created to find out if there had...
  1980

• University of California Regents v. Bakke states that state universities cannot set aside a numb...
  1978

• Official statement asking for monetary reparations made by the National Redress Committee/JACL
  1978

• National Redress Committee created by the Japanese American Citizens League
  1974

• Wounded Knee Siege
  1973

• American Indian Movement (AIM) issues their Three Point Program outlining their concerns about ra...
  1973

• Stanford no longer calls their teams 'Indians' and their mascot is no longer 'Chief Lightfoot'
  1971