1947
Feb 10

The “Wall of Separation” Between Church and State is Born

Feb 21

College Students Protest “Jim Crow” Barber

Feb 23

ACLU Urges NY Governor to Veto Film Censorship Bill

Mar 12

Cold War Begins: Truman Doctrine Announced

Mar 17

General MacArthur Invites ACLU Head Roger Baldwin to Occupied Japan to Assist With Civil Liberties

Mar 21

Guilt by Association: President Truman Launches Federal Loyalty Program

Apr 5

White Girl Expelled from Segregated All-Black Washington, DC, School

Apr 9

The First Freedom Ride: Journey of Reconciliation Begins

Apr 10

Branch Rickey Acquires Jackie Robinson’s Contract

Apr 10

Reagan “Names Names” to the FBI

Apr 14

“I Am Not a Communist,” Says Charlie Chaplin

Apr 14

Appeals Court Rules Segregated Mexican-American Schools in California Unconstitutional

Apr 15

Jackie Robinson Breaks Baseball Color Line

May 8

Syracuse University Integrates Football Stadium – Women and Men Can Now Sit Together!

May 26

FBI Memo Attacks “It’s A Wonderful Life” As Subversive, Anti-Capitalist Propaganda

Jun 6

Gary, Indiana, Schools to End Racial Segregation

Jun 23

Congress Overrides Truman Veto, Passes Taft-Hartley “Slave-labor Bill”

Jun 23

Justice Black Argues for Total Incorporation of the Bill of Rights

Jun 29

Truman First President to Address NAACP

Jul 5

Larry Doby Integrates American League in Baseball

Jul 25

Mary Ware Dennett, Feminist, Birth Control Activist, and Civil Libertarian, Dies

Jul 26

President Truman Signs National Security Act – Creates CIA

Sep 18

National Security Act in Effect on This Day: Decades of Lawless Abuses Begin

Oct 19

ACLU Attacks State Department “Gag” on Foreign Visitors

Oct 20

HUAC Opens Hearings on Communists in Hollywood

Oct 23

“An Appeal to the World” – NAACP Petition to the UN on Human Rights Violations in the U.S.

Oct 23

Ronald Reagan Testifies Before HUAC as “Friendly” Witness

Oct 24

Committee for the First Amendment Opposes HUAC Investigation of Hollywood

Oct 27

“Hollywood Ten” HUAC Hearings Begin – Angry Confrontation Erupts

Oct 28

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo Defies HUAC, Is Blacklisted

Oct 29

“To Secure These Rights:” Truman’s Civil Rights Committee Delivers Historic Report

Oct 30

Famed Playwright Brecht Testifies Before HUAC – Immediately Leaves the U.S.

Oct 30

Writer of M*A*S*H Refuses to Tell HUAC About His Beliefs and Associations – Is Blacklisted

Nov 16

Ayn Rand Publishes Anti-Communist “Screen Guide for Americans”

Nov 20

Americans United Launches Fight for Separation of Church and State

Nov 23

Clergy Seek Amnesty for Imprisoned WW II Conscientious Objectors

Dec 3

Hollywood Blacklist Begins

Dec 4

Official Blacklist: Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations Published

Dec 14

ACLU Criticizes Hollywood Blacklist

Dec 14

National Security Council Issues First Covert Action Order to CIA

Dec 17

National Security Council Authorizes CIA Covert Actions

Dec 24

Truman Pardons 1,523 WW II Draft Resisters

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