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Topic: Watergate
Jul 14,
1798
First Sedition Act Passed
Mar 3,
1873
Comstock Act Passed – Era of Censorship Begins
Sep 14,
1879
Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Pioneer, is Born
Jan 21,
1884
Roger Baldwin, Founder of the ACLU, is Born
Jan 11,
1885
Alice Paul, Suffragist Leader, Equal Rights Advocate, is Born
Mar 2,
1907
Expatriation Act Strips Citizenship From Women Who Marry Foreigners
Dec 24,
1908
Protect the City’s Morals! NYC Mayor Revokes All Movie Licenses
Nov 20,
1910
Pauli Murray, Civil Rights and Feminist Activist, is Born
Dec 2,
1911
Harriet Pilpel, Reproductive Rights Pioneer, is Born
Mar 24,
1912
Dorothy Height, Matriarch of the Civil Rights Movement, is Born
Feb 4,
1913
Happy Birthday Rosa Parks!
Mar 3,
1913
Suffragists March to Greet President Wilson
Mar 17,
1913
Suffragists Meet With President Wilson in White House
Mar 29,
1913
Theodore Roosevelt Warns That U.S. Threatened by “European Extremists” — Artists
Apr 4,
1913
Racially Integrated Suffrage Conference Held in St. Louis
Apr 24,
1913
Men Invited to Join Pro-Suffrage Parade in NYC
Oct 18,
1913
British Suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst Barred from U.S. – Later Admitted
Nov 18,
1913
Mass Suffrage Meeting In Washington Hears Noted British Suffragist
Apr 2,
1914
Post Office Bans Margaret Sanger’s “Woman Rebel”
May 16,
1914
Judge Learned Hand Rebukes Anti-Obscenity Crusader Anthony Comstock
Feb 8,
1915
“Birth of a Nation” Opens: A Century of Controversy Follows
Feb 23,
1915
Supreme Court: Movies Not Protected by First Amendment
Mar 3,
1915
Protests Greet “Birth of a Nation” Opening in New York City
Jun 16,
1915
University of Pennsylvania Fires Scott Nearing Over Radical Economic Views
Sep 21,
1915
Anthony Comstock Dies – Censorship Lives On
Oct 3,
1915
John Sumner to Continue Comstock’s Censorship Work
May 22,
1916
Margaret Sanger Speech Cancelled in St. Louis
Oct 16,
1916
Margaret Sanger Opens First Birth Control Clinic in America
Oct 25,
1916
Birth Control Pioneer Margaret Sanger Arrested For Opening First Birth Control Clinic in U.S.
Dec 5,
1916
Suffragists Protest at President Wilson’s Annual Message to Congress
Feb 2,
1917
Margaret Sanger Refuses to Obey New York Birth Control Law, Is Sentenced to Jail
Feb 10,
1917
Columbia University Bans Tolstoy’s Son as “Persona Non Grata”
Feb 17,
1917
Senators Denounce Proposed Espionage Bill as War Is Imminent
Feb 25,
1917
“Modesty” Ordered for Atlantic City Cabarets
Mar 3,
1917
National Woman’s Party Formed
Mar 4,
1917
Jeannette Rankin Takes Seat as the First Woman in the U.S. Congress; Votes Against U.S. Entry in Both World Wars
Mar 4,
1917
Suffragists Picket President Wilson’s Second Inauguration
Apr 7,
1917
President Wilson Issues Secret Loyalty Order
May 18,
1917
Congress Creates World War I Draft: Protests, Civil Liberties Violations Follow
Jul 2,
1917
Civil Liberties Bureau to Defend Conscientious Objectors, Free Speech in World War I Crisis
Jul 7,
1917
Government Repression Hits Socialist Opponents of War
Jul 7,
1917
Suppression of Dissent: “The Masses,” Anti-War Magazine, Held Non-Mailable
Jul 13,
1917
Activists Protest Post Office Censorship of Anti-War Publications
Aug 9,
1917
Suffragist Pickets Seek Exemption from Espionage Act Prosecution
Aug 11,
1917
“Kaiser Wilson” – Suffragists Picket White House
Sep 11,
1917
Emma Goldman Speech Banned in New York – Appears On Stage Gagged
Sep 26,
1917
Post Office to Ban Emma Goldman’s “Mother Earth”
Nov 1,
1917
National Civil Liberties Bureau Reports Sweeping Government Censorship
Nov 2,
1917
Post Office Ban on Anti-War “The Masses” Upheld – Repression of Dissent Expands
Dec 14,
1917
Kate Richards O’Hare Denounces World War I; Gets Five Years in Prison
Jan 9,
1918
President Wilson Finally Supports Women’s Right to Vote
Apr 18,
1918
Dyer Anti-lynching Bill Introduced in House
Apr 27,
1918
Hung Jury: “The Masses” Editors Not Convicted
Aug 13,
1918
First Woman Enlists in U.S. Marines
Aug 31,
1918
DOJ Raids National Civil Liberties Bureau Office, Seizes Records
Sep 14,
1918
Eugene Debs Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Anti-War Speech
Sep 14,
1918
WW I Conscientious Objectors Chained in Solitary Confinement, Dark Unsanitary Cells
Oct 30,
1918
Roger Baldwin, ACLU Founder, Sentenced to Prison – Delivers Famous Statement of Conscience
Nov 5,
1918
“As Natural as Breathing” – Women Vote for First Time in a New York Election
Jan 1,
1919
Suffragists Stage First “Watch Fire” Demonstration in Front of White House
Jan 15,
1919
National Civil Liberties Bureau Condemns Deportation and Exclusion Laws
Feb 7,
1919
Society Women Oppose “Indecent” Evening Gowns
Feb 9,
1919
Suffragists Burn Effigy of President Wilson in Front of White House
Mar 1,
1919
National Civil Liberties Bureau Issues Comprehensive Report on WW I Rights Violations
Mar 5,
1919
A. Mitchell Palmer Becomes Attorney General, Leads Notorious Palmer Raids
Jul 4,
1919
Police Threats Cancel Civil Liberties Bureau Meeting at Carnegie Hall
Jul 19,
1919
Race Riot Erupts in Washington, DC
Jan 16,
1920
Prohibition Begins – Civil Liberties Abuses Follow
Jan 19,
1920
ACLU Founded – Fight For Civil Liberties Begins
Feb 14,
1920
League of Women Voters Founded
Jun 5,
1920
Women’s Bureau is Created
Aug 18,
1920
Women Get the Vote – 19th Amendment Ratified
Nov 2,
1920
Women Vote For First Time in Federal Elections
Feb 14,
1921
Obscenity Charges for Publishing “Ulysses”
Mar 5,
1921
Will Hays Becomes Postmaster General; Ends Some, But Not All, Post Office Censorship
Mar 17,
1921
Dr. Marie Stopes Opens First Birth Control Clinic in England
Apr 6,
1921
President Harding Promises to Act on Women’s Equality
Aug 1,
1921
New York Motion Picture Commission Begins Work – Censorship Ahead
Nov 1,
1921
Margaret Sanger Founds American Birth Control League
Nov 11,
1921
First American Birth Control Conference
Nov 13,
1921
New York Police Halt Birth Control Meeting at Town Hall
Feb 27,
1922
Supreme Court Upholds 19th Amendment Granting Women the Right to Vote
Jun 4,
1922
Will Hays Tells Film Industry to “Purify” Itself
Aug 12,
1922
Groups Launch “War on Censorship”
Sep 7,
1922
Post Office Lifts Ban on Alexander Berkman’s “Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist”
Sep 22,
1922
Cable Act Grants Women Citizenship Independent of Husband’s Status
Dec 8,
1922
“Birth of a Nation” Denied Permit in New York City
May 15,
1923
Upton Sinclair Arrested in LA for Reading the Bill of Rights
Jul 21,
1923
Alice Paul Drafts and Introduces Equal Rights Amendment for Women
Feb 10,
1924
Police in Wilkes-Barre, PA Block Radicals’ Meeting
Apr 7,
1924
Harlan Fiske Stone Becomes Attorney General; Ends Justice Department Abuses
Jul 14,
1924
National Woman’s Party Announces Plan to Elect More Women to Congress
Nov 19,
1924
Women’s Groups Recommend Appointment of Women to NY State Board of Regents
Feb 4,
1925
Congress Holds First-Ever Hearings on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) for Women’s Rights
Mar 21,
1925
Tennessee Governor Signs Anti-Evolution Law – Sets Stage for Famous Scopes Case
May 12,
1925
OK to Issue Passports in a Woman’s Maiden Name
Jul 10,
1925
Historic Scopes Monkey Trial Begins
Jul 20,
1925
Darrow Mercilessly Cross-Examines Bryan at Scopes Trial
Jan 19,
1926
National Woman’s Party Protests Exclusion From Conference on Protective Legislation for Women
Apr 5,
1926
H. L. Mencken Arrested in Boston in Arranged Censorship Case
Jan 13,
1927
First Woman Seated on New York Stock Exchange
Jan 15,
1927
Scopes Conviction is Overturned
Mar 26,
1927
Will Hays Asks for Constitutional Amendment to Protect Movies From Censorship
Oct 14,
1927
Do Pajamas = Nudity? NYC DA Threatens Theater Prosecutions
Oct 14,
1927
Irish-American Groups Seek Ban on Films That Offend Racial or Religious Groups
Feb 1,
1928
Post Office Bans “Protest Against the Marines in Nicaragua” Stickers on Envelopes
Jul 8,
1928
Crystal Eastman, Civil Liberties Pioneer, Dies
Dec 27,
1928
Post Office Bans Anti-Fascist Italian Language Newspaper
Jan 15,
1929
Martin Luther King, Jr. is Born
Apr 15,
1929
NYC Birth Control Clinic Raided, Dr. Hannah Stone Arrested
Apr 16,
1929
“An American Tragedy:” Obscenity Trial Opens in Boston
Apr 16,
1929
Margaret Sanger Appears on Stage Gagged in Boston
Apr 23,
1929
Mary Ware Dennett, Sex Education and Birth Control Pioneer, Found Guilty of Obscenity
May 23,
1929
ACLU Leaders Meet with NYC Police Commissioner, Demand Protection of Civil Liberties
Jul 26,
1929
Lesbian Themed “The Well of Loneliness” Held Not Obscene by U.S. Customs Court
Oct 2,
1929
Liberal Catholic Priest Opposes Equal Rights Amendment for Women
Oct 9,
1929
National Woman’s Party Begins Radio Series on NBC
Oct 13,
1929
Martial Law, Suppression of the Press in Oil-Boom Texas City
Jan 12,
1930
ACLU Demands Inquiry into Missing Files in Dismissed Birth Control and Censorship Cases
Jan 28,
1930
ACLU to Sue NYC Police Over Brutality, Fatal Shooting of Communist Party Member in Demonstration
Mar 3,
1930
Mary Ware Dennett, Birth Control, Sex Education Advocate, Is Vindicated
Mar 31,
1930
Hollywood Censorship: Early Production Code Adopted
Oct 2,
1930
Cleveland Police Club, Tear Gas 2,500 Protesting President Herbert Hoover
Mar 25,
1931
Scottsboro Case Begins: Nine Young African-Americans Arrested in Alabama
Apr 6,
1931
U.S. versus Married Love . . . . Really?
Aug 10,
1931
Wickersham Commission: First-Ever Report on Police Brutality
Nov 28,
1931
NYC Police Raid Anti-Fascist Newspaper’s Office – ACLU Protests
Oct 2,
1932
LA Police, American Legion Break Up Scottsboro Defense Meeting in Long Beach, CA
Dec 6,
1933
Classic Novel “Ulysses” Ruled Not Pornographic!
Feb 28,
1934
“The Nudist” Magazine Banned by NYC License Commissioner
Jun 13,
1934
Notorious Movie Censorship Code Adopted
Aug 7,
1934
Americans Can Finally Read “Ulysses” – Court Ends Ban
Oct 13,
1934
NYC Police Break Up Anti-Fascist Rally – NYCLU Demands Mayor Investigate
Nov 27,
1934
NYC Police Commissioner Tells Officers to “Muss Up” Known Criminals
Mar 20,
1935
NYC Mayor La Guardia Launches Investigation of Police Brutality in Harlem
Jul 27,
1935
“Ecstasy” is Burning!
Jan 11,
1936
Tulsa Bans Play “Tobacco Road”
May 2,
1936
YWCA to Include Sex Education in its Program
Jul 16,
1936
Westchester County Continues Ban on Men’s Topless Swim Suits
Dec 19,
1936
ACLU Charges Widespread Radio Censorship
Feb 20,
1937
National Lawyers Guild, Alternative to ABA, is Organized
Apr 6,
1937
Julia Sims First Woman Foreperson of a Federal Grand Jury
May 24,
1937
New York Law Allows Women as Jurors
Jun 13,
1937
“Cradle Will Rock” Defies Government Censorship, Opens in Different Theater
Mar 13,
1938
“Attorney for the Damned,” Clarence Darrow, Dies
Apr 11,
1938
“Birth of a Baby” Public Health Photographs Called Obscene
Feb 2,
1939
Attorney General Frank Murphy Creates DOJ Civil Liberties Unit
Feb 25,
1939
Once-Banned Film Opens; “Near-Adolescent Riot” Ensues
Apr 9,
1939
Marian Anderson Gives Historic Lincoln Memorial Concert
Apr 20,
1939
Billie Holiday Records “Strange Fruit”
Jun 19,
1939
American Library Association Adopts Library Bill of Rights
Aug 18,
1939
“The Grapes of Wrath” Banned in Kansas City, Kansas
Sep 15,
1939
Censor Ruling Reversed: OK to Show Film of Unmarried French Peasants
Nov 15,
1939
“Grapes of Wrath” Ordered Burned in East St. Louis, IL
Feb 21,
1940
Civil Rights Leader and U.S. Representative John Lewis is Born in Troy, Alabama
May 14,
1940
Emma Goldman, Anarchist, Anti-WW I Activist, Feminist, Birth Control Advocate, Dies
May 21,
1940
FDR Okays Continued FBI Wiretapping
Jul 13,
1940
Equal Rights Amendment Divides Women at Democratic Party Convention
Jan 14,
1941
A. Philip Randolph Calls For a March on Washington
Jan 27,
1941
California Creates Un-American Activities Committee
May 6,
1941
Ernest Hemingway Denied Pulitzer Prize for “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
Jun 25,
1941
FDR Signs First-Ever Equal Employment Opportunity Order
Feb 6,
1942
Attorney General Biddle Urges Lawyers to Defend Civil Liberties in Wartime
Mar 9,
1942
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Founded
Apr 14,
1942
Attorney General Biddle OKs Censoring Father Coughlin’s “Social Justice” Magazine
Dec 7,
1942
“Native Son” Play, Temporarily Closed Under Catholic Pressure, Reopens in NYC
Feb 1,
1943
Supreme Court Upholds Connecticut Anti-Birth Control Law
Apr 17,
1943
First Sit-in Challenges Segregated Washington D.C. Restaurants
May 8,
1943
CORE Leads Early Sit-in in Chicago
Aug 1,
1943
Harlem Race Riot Signals Rising African-American Discontent
Sep 29,
1943
Six Conscientious Objectors Begin Hunger Strike in Lewisburg Penitentiary over Censorship of Reading Materials
Nov 18,
1943
Liberal, Racial Minority, and Labor Groups Urge Post Office Ban on Hate Mail
Jan 28,
1944
Teens Declare That Boogie-Woogie Does Not Cause Delinquency!
Jan 31,
1944
Eleanor Roosevelt Supports Equality for Women, But Not the ERA
Apr 4,
1944
“Strange Fruit,” The Novel, Banned in Boston
Apr 22,
1944
Sit-in Challenges Restaurant Segregation in Washington, D.C.
May 27,
1944
First Television Censorship!
Jan 3,
1945
HUAC Made a Permanent Committee – Assault on Freedom of Belief and Association Continues
Jul 17,
1945
Congress Refuses to Extend Committee on Fair Employment Practices
Apr 27,
1946
Civil Rights Congress Formed
May 13,
1946
U.S. Occupying Forces Destroy Books in Germany
Jul 17,
1946
President Truman Authorizes FBI Wiretapping
Feb 23,
1947
ACLU Urges NY Governor to Veto Film Censorship Bill
Mar 21,
1947
Guilt by Association: President Truman Launches Federal Loyalty Program
May 26,
1947
FBI Memo Attacks “It’s A Wonderful Life” As Subversive, Anti-Capitalist Propaganda
Jul 25,
1947
Mary Ware Dennett, Feminist, Birth Control Activist, and Civil Libertarian, Dies
Jan 12,
1948
Supreme Court Requires Oklahoma to Provide Equal Law School Opportunity for African-Americans
Mar 26,
1948
Philadelphia Police Seize 2,000 Books; Authors Protest
May 1,
1948
Senator Glen Taylor Arrested in Civil Rights Protest
Jun 12,
1948
Women’s Armed Services Integration Act is Passed
Jul 7,
1948
First Six Enlisted Women Sworn into the U.S. Navy
Jul 13,
1948
Groups Protest NYC Public Schools Ban on “The Nation” Magazine
Oct 1,
1948
Guilty of Speaking in the Park
Dec 10,
1948
“Respectful Prostitute” Play Banned in Chicago Over Race Issues
Oct 21,
1949
President Truman Nominates Burnita Shelton Matthews as First Woman District Court Judge
Jan 25,
1950
Senate Approves Equal Rights Amendment for Women by Vote of 63-19
Feb 20,
1950
Senator Joe McCarthy Claims List of 81 Communists in Government
Mar 14,
1950
Actress Ingrid Bergman’s Affair Provokes Scandal and a Civil Liberties Crisis
Apr 4,
1950
Burnita Matthews Confirmed as First Female U.S. District Court Judge
Aug 23,
1950
U.S. Senate Brands Famous Italian Film Director Rossellini a “Fascist”
Jan 26,
1951
No Liberal Magazines for Los Angeles Students
Aug 13,
1951
ACLU Defends Right of NYC Police to Form a Union
Sep 4,
1951
Ohio State Imposes Speaker Ban
Feb 11,
1952
Oklahoma City Burns Books for “Socialism and Sex”
Apr 10,
1952
Naming Names: Famed Director Elia Kazan Names 8 People Before HUAC
May 21,
1952
Playwright Lillian Hellman Famously Rebukes HUAC
May 26,
1952
“The Miracle!” Movies Protected by First Amendment
Dec 8,
1952
“I Love Lucy,” But Just Don’t Say She’s ‘Pregnant’
Jan 19,
1953
“Lucy Goes to the Hospital” – Just Doesn’t Say Why
Jan 21,
1953
And When He was Good . . . . : Herbert Brownell, Jr., Becomes Attorney General
Jul 8,
1953
Eeek! A Virgin! The Film “The Moon is Blue” Premiers in New York
Dec 23,
1953
AEC Suspends J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Security Clearance
Apr 21,
1954
Danger! Comic Books!
May 17,
1954
“Separate but Equal” Unconstitutional: Landmark “Brown v. Board of Education” Decision
May 17,
1954
President Eisenhower: “Women: Where Are They Not Equal?”
May 20,
1954
Attorney General Brownell Advises FBI to Evade Supreme Court Decision on Eavesdropping
Aug 12,
1954
New York Film Censors Okay Scene of Birth of a Calf in Disney Nature Movie
Oct 26,
1954
Save the Children! Comic Book Code Adopted
Jan 20,
1955
Sit-ins Integrate Baltimore Lunch Counters at Read’s Stores
Mar 2,
1955
Nine Months Before Rosa Parks: Four African-American Women Challenge Discrimination on Montgomery, Alabama, Bus
Apr 15,
1955
First Abortion Conference in the U.S.
May 22,
1955
Lock Up Your Teenagers! Fats is Coming
Aug 26,
1955
“Blackboard Jungle” Removed as U.S. Entry in Venice Film Festival
Sep 1,
1955
Huck Finn Whitewashed – No Slavery, No African-Americans in TV Movie
Oct 6,
1955
Allen Ginsberg Reads “Howl” for the First Time
Oct 22,
1955
Future Civil Rights Hero Frank M. Johnson Appointed District Court Judge in Alabama
Oct 24,
1955
Can We Say “Virgin”? Supreme Court Okays Film “The Moon is Blue”
Dec 1,
1955
Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat to a White Person– Inspires Historic Montgomery Bus Boycott
Dec 5,
1955
Rosa Parks Convicted for Refusing to Give Up Her Seat; Bus Boycott Begins
Dec 15,
1955
“Man With the Golden Arm” Opens Without Hollywood Seal of Approval – Challenges Censorship Code
Jan 19,
1956
“Dragnet” Episode Attacks CA Supreme Court Exclusionary Rule Decision
Feb 7,
1956
Samuel Roth (“the Prometheus of the Unprintable”) is Convicted
Jun 13,
1956
Court Orders Montgomery, Alabama, Buses Desegregated
Jun 21,
1956
Playwright Arthur Miller Testifies Before HUAC – Refuses to Name Names
Aug 23,
1956
Stamp Out Orgasms! Government Seizes and Burns the Work of Dr. Wilhelm Reich
Sep 9,
1956
From the Waist Up: Elvis Censored on Ed Sullivan Show
Mar 25,
1957
Stop that Poem! Customs Seizes Copies of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”
May 23,
1957
Cleveland Police Raid Dolree Mapp’s House: Case Leads to Exclusionary Rule
May 26,
1957
Paul Robeson Denied Passport – Gives London Concert by Phone
Jun 3,
1957
You Can’t Read “Howl”! Publisher of Now-Classic Poem Arrested
Oct 3,
1957
You Can Now Read “Howl”– Publisher Acquitted of Obscenity Charges
Oct 11,
1957
“Don’t Put the T*ilet Se*t On TV”
Nov 16,
1957
Catholic Bishops Adopt Plan to Fight Obscenity
Jun 23,
1958
Eisenhower Meets with Four Civil Rights Leaders in the White House – Nothing Results
Jun 30,
1958
Supreme Court Establishes Right of Freedom of Association
Jul 19,
1958
1958 Wichita Sit-In Challenges Segregation
Sep 18,
1958
Cincinnati Public Library Bans “Lolita,” Acclaimed Novel
Apr 16,
1959
“Just Don’t Mention Gas Chambers;” CBS Censors TV Program on Nuremberg Trials
May 6,
1959
New York Post Office Seizes “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
Jun 11,
1959
“Lady Chatterley’s Lover” Banned From the Mails
Jan 20,
1960
Hollywood Blacklist Broken – Producer Otto Preminger Credits Dalton Trumbo for “Exodus” Script
Jan 24,
1960
A. Philip Randolph Calls for Mass Movement; Sit-Ins Begin a Week Later
Feb 1,
1960
Greensboro, NC Sit-In — Civil Rights Struggle Enters Historic New Phase
Feb 13,
1960
Nashville Students Begin Sit-ins
Mar 15,
1960
Julian Bond Leads Atlanta’s First Sit-In
Mar 29,
1960
The Ad That Produced a Landmark First Amendment Case
Apr 15,
1960
SNCC Founded by Sit-In Leaders
Apr 28,
1960
Newly Formed SDS Holds “Act Now” Conference on Human Rights in the North
May 11,
1960
FDA Approves First Birth Control Pill, Sexual Revolution Begins
May 12,
1960
Major Anti-HUAC Protest Begins in San Francisco; Police Brutality the Next Day
Jul 25,
1960
Greensboro, North Carolina, Lunch Counters Integrated
Oct 17,
1960
Major Sit-in Victory: Four Chain Stores Desegregate 150 Lunch Counters in 112 Cities
Oct 27,
1960
Martin Luther King Released From Reidsville, Georgia Prison; RFK’s Phone Call Helped
Jan 9,
1961
Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, First African-Americans to Enroll at University of Georgia
Jan 25,
1961
Controversy Sparked Over “Managed News” by the Kennedy Administration
Jan 26,
1961
California Loyalty Oath for Organizations Using School Facilities Struck Down
Feb 2,
1961
Civil Rights “Jail-in” in Rock Hill, South Carolina
Mar 6,
1961
President Kennedy Issues Equal Employment Opportunity Order
Mar 7,
1961
Sit-In Victory: Atlanta Stores Desegregate Lunch Counters
May 4,
1961
Freedom Ride Begins, Challenges Segregation in Interstate Travel
May 14,
1961
Folk Singing Returns to NYC Washington Square Park
May 14,
1961
Jim Peck, Freedom Rider, Assaulted in Alabama
May 20,
1961
President Kennedy Fails to Support Freedom Ride
May 24,
1961
Freedom Riders Immediately Arrested in Jackson, MS – Secret Deal by AG Robert Kennedy
May 30,
1961
“We’ve Been ‘Cooling Off’ for 350 Years!” Civil Rights Leader Rebukes AG Kennedy’s Call for Halting the 1961 Freedom Ride
Jun 19,
1961
Justice Harlan II’s Historic Dissent on a Right to Privacy
Aug 11,
1961
Justice Department Lifts 30-Year Customs Ban on “Tropic of Cancer”
Oct 4,
1961
Lenny Bruce, Pioneering Comedian, Arrested for Obscenity in San Francisco
Oct 15,
1961
Hunter College Denies Permit to Conservative “National Review” – ACLU to Defend Magazine
Nov 10,
1961
Estelle Griswold Arrested – Road to a Right to Privacy Begins
Nov 17,
1961
U.S. Civil Rights Commission Finds Police Brutality “A Serious Problem” Nationwide
Dec 11,
1961
“Garner v. Louisiana” – Early Sit-In Victory
Dec 14,
1961
President Kennedy Creates Commission on the Status of Women
Jan 2,
1962
Weavers Refuse to Sign Loyalty Oath – Are Banned by NBC
Jan 26,
1962
Catholic Bishop Bans The Twist
Feb 9,
1962
Police Chiefs Hold 5-day Closed Meeting on Desegregation; Agree that Federal Law is Supreme
Mar 14,
1962
Bridgeport, CT, Police Chief Bans Novel, “The Carpetbaggers” – Connecticut ACLU to Sue
Jun 28,
1962
John Henry Faulk Wins $3.5 Million Damages Award for Being Blacklisted
Jan 14,
1963
Governor George Wallace: “Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever”
Mar 20,
1963
Joan Baez Boycotts “Hootenanny” Over Blacklist
Apr 3,
1963
“B” Day – Rev. Martin Luther King Launches Birmingham Demonstrations
Apr 12,
1963
Martin Luther King Arrested in Birmingham Demonstration: Writes Famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Apr 16,
1963
Martin Luther King, Jr., Writes Famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
May 2,
1963
“D” Day in Birmingham – Martin Luther King Mobilizes Children for Demonstrations
May 3,
1963
Fire Hoses and Police Dogs Attack Birmingham Civil Right Demonstrators
May 10,
1963
“Bombingham:” Racists Bomb Birmingham Motel
Jun 10,
1963
President Kennedy Signs Equal Pay Act
Jun 11,
1963
George Wallace “Stands in the Schoolhouse Door” to Block Integration; Then Steps Aside
Jun 22,
1963
President Kennedy Pressures Dr. Martin Luther King to Fire Alleged Communist Associates, Fails
Jun 25,
1963
North Carolina Passes Campus Speaker Ban
Sep 10,
1963
Alabama Fights School Integration – JFK Mobilizes National Guard
Sep 14,
1963
Pete Seeger Refuses to Sign Loyalty Oath, Is Barred from “Hootenanny” TV Show
Sep 15,
1963
“Bombingham” – Birmingham Church Bomb Kills Four African American Girls
Sep 16,
1963
“A Time to Speak:” Chuck Morgan, White Birmingham Resident, Denounces Racist Bombing
Oct 10,
1963
AG Robert Kennedy Approves FBI Wiretaps on Martin Luther King
Jan 5,
1964
FBI Installs First “Bug” in Martin Luther King’s Hotel Room
Feb 8,
1964
House Debates Adding Sex Discrimination to Title VII of 1964 Civil Rights Act
Mar 2,
1964
“Fish-In” Challenges Limits on Native-American Fishing Rights
Apr 3,
1964
Malcolm X Gives Famous “The Ballot or the Bullet” Speech in Cleveland
Jun 9,
1964
CIA Pressures Publisher of Second-Ever Book on Agency
Jun 22,
1964
“Tropic of Cancer” Ruled Not Obscene
Jul 29,
1964
Civil Rights Groups Split on Suspending Protests Because of Riots
Sep 16,
1964
Berkeley Bans Off-Campus Political Advocacy on Campus, Sparks Free Speech Movement
Oct 1,
1964
Jack Weinberg Arrested; Berkeley Free Speech Movement Escalates
Nov 4,
1964
Lenny Bruce, Radical Comedian, Convicted of Obscenity in New York City
Nov 6,
1964
Conflict Arises Over Role of Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Dec 2,
1964
Free Speech Movement Historic Moment – Mario Savio Denounces “The System”
Jan 15,
1965
LBJ Calls Martin Luther King – Plan Voting Rights Strategy
Mar 7,
1965
“Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama: John Lewis, Other Marchers Beaten and Tear Gassed
Mar 16,
1965
LBJ Sends Federal Troops to Guard Selma Voting Rights March
Mar 21,
1965
Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March Begins Again
Mar 24,
1965
First Vietnam War Teach-in at University of Michigan
Mar 25,
1965
1965 Voting Rights March Reaches Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery
Apr 17,
1965
First Big Anti-Vietnam War March on Washington
Apr 17,
1965
Mattachine Society Pickets White House to Demand Equal Rights for Homosexuals
Apr 21,
1965
Ohio State Bans Marxist Speaker, Herbert Aptheker
Jun 7,
1965
A Constitutional Right to Privacy: “Griswold v. Connecticut”
Jul 2,
1965
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Established
Aug 12,
1965
Dr. Martin Luther King Opposes Vietnam War
Nov 2,
1965
First Federally Supported Birth Control Clinic Opens
Nov 27,
1965
Tens of Thousands of Vietnam War Protesters Picket the White House
Dec 3,
1965
All-White Jury Convicts KKK Members for Murder of Viola Liuzzo
Jan 20,
1966
Stewardess Judith Evenson Challenges Northwest Airlines’ “No Marriage” Policy
Feb 9,
1966
NYC Police Commissioner Opposes Civilian Review of the Police in Letter to Mayor
Mar 1,
1966
President Johnson Endorses Federal Aid for Family Planning
Mar 9,
1966
Other Side of the Wall: Speakers Defy North Carolina Speaker Ban
Jun 30,
1966
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is Founded
Sep 6,
1966
Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Pioneer, Dies at Age 86
Oct 29,
1966
NOW Formally Chartered
Nov 8,
1966
NYC Voters Abolish Civilian Complaint Review Board for the Police
Jan 15,
1967
Let’s Spend “Some Time” Together – Rolling Stones Censor Themselves on Ed Sullivan Show
Mar 29,
1967
Court Ends Philadelphia Police Advisory Board
Apr 6,
1967
Bill Baird Arrested for Giving Contraceptive to Unmarried Woman
May 8,
1967
“Redrup:” Supreme Court Gives Up Trying to Define Obscenity
May 17,
1967
Tennessee Repeals Anti-Evolution Law — 42 Years After the Scopes Case
May 29,
1967
Cleveland Bar Association Criticizes Mayor for Not Meeting with Martin Luther King
Jun 15,
1967
Governor Reagan Signs Liberal California Abortion Law – Then Regrets It
Oct 13,
1967
LBJ, Under Pressure, Adds Women to Affirmative Action Order
Oct 20,
1967
1,000 Draft Cards Turned in to Justice Department in Vietnam War Protest
Oct 21,
1967
100,000 March on Pentagon to Protest Vietnam War
Nov 8,
1967
President Johnson Ends Barriers to Promoting Women in Military
Dec 12,
1967
NOW Holds Demonstrations at EEOC Field Offices Across the Country
Jan 5,
1968
Dr. Spock, Four Others, Indicted for Anti-War Conspiracy
Jan 15,
1968
“Sisterhood is Powerful”: Women’s March for Equality Led by 87-year old Jeannette Rankin
Feb 25,
1968
Pete Seeger Performs “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy” on Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Feb 29,
1968
Kerner Commission Report on 1960s Riots Warns: “Two Societies, One Black, One White”
Apr 3,
1968
King’s Final Speech: “I Have Been to the Mountaintop”
Apr 4,
1968
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated
Jun 10,
1968
Supreme Court Okays Police Stops and Frisks
Aug 28,
1968
“Police Riot” at Democratic Party Convention
Sep 4,
1968
CIA Delivers “Restless Youth” Report on U.S. Peace Groups
Sep 7,
1968
Feminists Protest Miss America Pageant – But Do NOT Burn Bras
Nov 1,
1968
Rated “X” – New Movie Ratings System Goes Into Effect
Dec 1,
1968
Walker Report Finds “Police Riot” at Democratic Party Convention
Jan 7,
1969
Governor Reagan: Drive “Anarchists” and “Latter Day Fascists” Off California Campuses
Feb 5,
1969
“Nude-In:” Grinnell College Students Protest Playboy Magazine
Feb 14,
1969
NARAL, Abortion Rights Group, Founded
Mar 10,
1969
Civil Rights Demonstrations Upheld: “Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham”
Apr 4,
1969
CBS Cancels Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
May 7,
1969
Women Picket White House – FBI Sees National Security Threat!
May 9,
1969
The Road to Watergate Begins: NY Times Exposes Secret Bombing of Cambodia; President Nixon Orders Illegal Wiretapping
Jun 28,
1969
Stonewall Inn Riots – Lesbian, Gay Rights Movement Born
Jul 11,
1969
Dr. Spock’s Conviction for Conspiracy to Oppose Vietnam War Draft Overturned
Oct 15,
1969
First Vietnam War Moratorium – Massive Protests Across the Country
Nov 15,
1969
Second Anti-Vietnam War Moratorium – Massive Protests
Dec 4,
1969
President Nixon, Vice-President Agnew Ponder Causes of “Generation Gap”
Dec 15,
1969
“A Matter of Simple Justice” – Nixon Administration Report on Women’s Equity
Dec 22,
1969
Native-American Protest: Radio Free Alcatraz Broadcasts
Jul 1,
1970
New York Abortion-Reform Law Takes Effect
Feb 26,
1970
Army to End Monitoring Peaceful Protests
Mar 23,
1970
Eleanor Holmes Norton Named Head of NYC Commission on Human Rights
Apr 1,
1970
Grateful Dead Provokes First-Ever FCC Indecency Fine
Apr 11,
1970
Governor Rockefeller Signs NY Abortion Reform Law
May 1,
1970
Massive Nationwide Student Strike Protests Cambodian Invasion in Vietnam War
May 10,
1970
Protester Hangs American Flag Upside Down, With Peace Symbol, Heads to Supreme Court
Jun 5,
1970
President Nixon Demands Action on Anti-War Protests: Abuses Follow
Jun 11,
1970
Rep. Martha Griffiths Forces Proposed ERA Amendment Out of Committee
Aug 10,
1970
Rep. Shirley Chisholm Speaks Out For the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Aug 26,
1970
March Commemorates Women’s Suffrage
Jan 12,
1971
First Abortion Case Is Argued Before U.S. Supreme Court
Jan 15,
1971
National Press Club Admits Women Reporters
Jan 22,
1971
Congressional Black Caucus Boycotts President Nixon’s State of the Union Address
Apr 21,
1971
Vuitch: Supreme Court Rules in First-Ever Abortion Case
Jun 30,
1971
Landmark Freedom of the Press Victory: Supreme Court Strikes Down Pentagon Papers Injunction
Jul 10,
1971
National Women’s Political Caucus Formed
Jul 24,
1971
Nixon “Plumbers” Unit Created, Illegal Actions Follow
Aug 16,
1971
“To Screw Our Enemies” – Memo to President Nixon Leads to Infamous “Enemies List”
Aug 19,
1971
Nixon White House Requests Bogus FBI Investigation of Daniel Schorr
Sep 3,
1971
FBI to Investigate Police Violence Against Latinos, African-Americans in Bridgeport, CT
Sep 9,
1971
Attica Prison Rebellion Begins
Sep 9,
1971
President Nixon’s “Plumbers” Burglarize Ellsberg’s Psychiatrist’s Office
Sep 13,
1971
Massacre at Attica Prison, New York
Oct 22,
1971
“A Civil Liberties Disaster” – New York Civil Liberties Union Attacks Procedures in Police Corruption Probe
Nov 22,
1971
Breakthrough: Women Covered by Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment
Dec 4,
1971
ACLU Creates Pioneering Women’s Rights Project –With Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Director
Jan 27,
1972
Notorious GEMSTONE Meeting in Attorney General’s Office: Illegal Activities Planned
Mar 18,
1972
President Nixon Endorses Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) for Women
Mar 22,
1972
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Goes to the States for Ratification
Mar 22,
1972
Unmarried Women Win Right to Contraceptives in Massachusetts
Apr 10,
1972
Charlie Chaplin Receives Honorary Oscar, 20 Years After Being Excluded From U.S.
Jun 17,
1972
Watergate Break-in, Arrests – Famous Scandal Begins
Jun 23,
1972
Nixon White House “Smoking Gun” Meeting; Nixon Obstructs Justice
Jun 23,
1972
Women’s Sports Boosted – Title IX Signed Into Law
Jan 22,
1973
A Constitutional Right to an Abortion: “Roe v. Wade”
Jan 29,
1973
Emily Howell Warner: First Female Pilot for a Commercial Airline
Jan 30,
1973
Watergate Burglary Leaders Convicted; Scandal Deepens
Feb 4,
1973
“Women’s Lobby” Adjusts Lobbying Priorities in the Wake of “Roe”
Mar 2,
1973
George Carlin Records Famous “Seven Dirty Words” Monologue
Mar 10,
1973
Stewardesses for Women’s Rights Hold 2-Day Conference
Mar 23,
1973
U.S. Orders Beatle John Lennon Out of U.S. Within 60 Days
May 16,
1973
“Anything the NSA Did is Totally Defensible” — President Nixon
Jun 21,
1973
Help Wanted: Sex-Segregated Want Ads Unconstitutional
Jun 27,
1973
Reporter Daniel Schorr Reads Nixon’s “Enemies List” on National TV – Finds His Own Name on It
Jul 16,
1973
Secret White House Taping System Revealed – Tapes Lead to Nixon’s Resignation
Oct 20,
1973
“Saturday Night Massacre” – Watergate Scandal Deepens
Oct 30,
1973
Cover Your Ears! George Carlin’s Seven Dirty Words Broadcast
Nov 7,
1973
New Jersey Civil Rights Division Rules Little League Must Admit Girls
Nov 12,
1973
Airline Stewardesses Win Sweeping Discrimination Suit
Nov 17,
1973
President Nixon: “I Am Not a Crook”
Feb 9,
1974
Chicago Bans “Impeach Nixon” Signs From Buses, Trains; ACLU Sues
Apr 29,
1974
“Expletive Deleted:” Nixon Releases Edited White House Watergate Tapes
Jun 4,
1974
“The List” is Ended: President Nixon Abolishes the Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations
Jul 24,
1974
Supreme Court Orders President Nixon to Turn Over Tapes – Resignation Soon Follows
Jul 27,
1974
President Richard Nixon Impeached by House
Aug 5,
1974
White House Releases Incriminating “Smoking Gun” Tape Recordings – Nixon Resigns Four Days Later
Aug 9,
1974
President Nixon Resigns in Disgrace
Jan 14,
1975
Edward Levi Named Attorney General – Will Chart Independent Course
Jan 21,
1975
Women Cannot be Excluded From Jury Duty: “Taylor v. Louisiana”
Jan 27,
1975
Edward Levi Promises to be Independent U.S. Attorney General
Jan 27,
1975
Senate Creates Church Committee to Investigate Abuses by Intelligence Agencies
Feb 19,
1975
House Creates Pike Committee to Investigate Abuses by the CIA, other Agencies
Mar 19,
1975
Supreme Court Strikes Down Sex Discrimination in Social Security Benefits
Jun 8,
1975
Attorney General Levi: Presidents Have No Authority to Order Assassinations
Oct 7,
1975
John Lennon Can Stay in U.S. – Court Ends Government Deportation Effort
Oct 29,
1975
First Time Ever: Head of National Security Agency (NSA) Testifies Before Congress
Jan 22,
1976
Supreme Court Rejects Injunctions Against Police Misconduct
Jan 29,
1976
House Suppresses Pike Committee Report on CIA Abuses
Feb 18,
1976
Cover-up Ends: CIA Required to Report Criminal Actions By Agents to DOJ
Feb 18,
1976
President Ford Bans Assassinations by CIA
Feb 19,
1976
Daniel Schorr Faces Charges for Leaking Pike Committee Report
Jul 6,
1976
First Women Enroll at Annapolis
Jul 7,
1976
First Women Cadets Enroll at West Point
Sep 14,
1976
National Emergencies Act Limits Presidential Power
Sep 15,
1976
ACLU Sues Memphis over Destroyed Police Spying Files
Jan 18,
1977
Indiana the Last State to Ratify the ERA for Women’s Rights
Jan 21,
1977
President Carter Pardons Vietnam War Protesters
Jul 9,
1977
Alice Paul, Force Behind Women’s Suffrage Amendment and Author of the Equal Rights Amendment, Dies
Jul 14,
1977
House Creates Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Aug 26,
1977
Alice Paul Memorial March for Women’s Rights
Nov 23,
1977
WASPS, WWII Women Pilots, Get Retroactive Military Status
Mar 20,
1978
Florida Supreme Court Rules Homosexuals Can Practice Law
Jul 3,
1978
Supreme Court Bans Comedian George Carlin’s Seven Dirty Words
Aug 1,
1978
Midge Costanza, Carter Administration Rights Advocate, Resigns
Mar 9,
1979
“The Secret That Exploded” — The Progressive Magazine Enjoined from Publishing Article on Making an H-Bomb
Jul 2,
1979
Supreme Court: No Parental Consent Needed for Abortion
Dec 18,
1979
UN Adopts Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Feb 8,
1980
President Carter Recommends Women Register for Draft
May 28,
1980
First Women Graduate From West Point
Jan 16,
1981
ACLU’s Roger Baldwin and Earl Warren Awarded Medal of Freedom
Jul 8,
1981
Women Golfers Unite! Women Challenge Ban on Mixed Foursomes on Long Island, NY
Mar 2,
1982
Wisconsin First State to Ban Sexual Orientation Discrimination
Aug 12,
1982
Long Island, NY, School Board Voluntarily Returns Banned Books to School Library
Sep 24,
1982
Banned Books Week Begins – Last Week of September
Sep 28,
1982
Congressional Caucus on Women’s Issues Protests Low Number of Women at IRS
Mar 26,
1983
Bob Dole: “Hear No Evil, See No Evil . . . And Evil (Richard Nixon)”
Dec 9,
1983
FBI Ordered to Pay Jim Peck $25,000 for Assault as Freedom Rider
Jan 30,
1984
Reagan Attacks ACLU: “I Wear Their Indictment Like a Badge of Honor”
May 1,
1984
Indianapolis Anti-Pornography Ordinance Signed
Feb 25,
1985
Ed Meese Becomes Attorney General; Leads Assault on Civil Liberties
Mar 27,
1985
Supreme Court Limits Police Use of Deadly Force
Apr 23,
1985
Farley Mowat, Canadian Author, Denied Entry into U.S.
Jun 4,
1985
Alabama “Moment of Silence” Law Unconstitutional
Jul 1,
1985
Pauli Murray, Civil Rights Pioneer, Feminist, Civil Libertarian, Dies
Oct 1,
1985
Annual Free Speech Day in California: Commemorates Free Speech Movement
Jul 8,
1986
Attorney General Meese Releases Porn Commission Report
Mar 10,
1987
ACT UP, HIV/AIDS Advocacy Group, Founded
May 4,
1987
ACT UP Demands Action on HIV / AIDS Crisis
Sep 22,
1988
Attorney General Richard Thornburgh Attacks ACLU for “Political Agenda”
Oct 6,
1990
Robert Mapplethorpe and Gallery Curator Indicted for Obscenity in Cincinnati
Feb 2,
1991
Pentagon Bans Media Coverage of Military Casualties Returning to U.S.
Mar 3,
1991
L.A. Police Beat Rodney King; Video Tape Provokes National Outrage
Apr 23,
1991
Harriet Pilpel Dies; Civil Libertarian, Reproductive Rights Pioneer
Apr 5,
1992
March for Women’s Lives in Washington
Apr 29,
1992
LAPD Officers Acquitted in Rodney King Beating: Los Angeles Erupts in Riots
Jun 29,
1992
Supreme Court Preserves Right to Abortion; Defines “Undue Burden” Standard
Mar 11,
1993
Janet Reno Confirmed as First Female Attorney General
May 12,
1994
Abortion Clinic Access Law (FACE) Passes in Congress
Sep 13,
1994
Violence Against Women Act Passed
Sep 13,
1994
Violent Crime Control Act Addresses Police Abuse, Violence Against Women
Jul 19,
1995
President Clinton on Affirmative Action: “Mend it, Don’t End It”
Sep 5,
1995
“Women’s Rights are Human Rights” – Hillary Clinton Speaks In Beijing
Feb 8,
1996
President Clinton Signs Communications Decency Act; ACLU Immediately Sues
May 12,
1996
Three Federal Judges Visit Internet Porn Sites in Communications Decency Case
Jun 26,
1996
VMI Ordered to Admit Women
Apr 16,
1997
Consent Degree to End “Pattern or Practice” of Abuse by Pittsburgh Police
Aug 18,
1997
First Women Enroll at Virginia Military Institute (VMI)
Jun 10,
1999
Supreme Court Declares Chicago Anti-Gang Law Unconstitutional
Sep 27,
2000
Frank Wills, Watergate Scandal Hero, Dies
Feb 2,
2001
John Ashcroft, Hostile to Civil Liberties, Becomes Attorney General
Jul 31,
2001
Ten Commandments Installed in Alabama Court House
Nov 1,
2001
President Bush Limits Access to Past Presidents’ Papers
Jan 11,
2002
Guantanamo Bay Detention Center Opens – Abuses Follow
Jan 18,
2002
President Bush Declares Guantanamo Bay Detainees Not Prisoners of War
Sep 24,
2003
New York City Police “Stop and Frisk” Practices Unconstitutional — But Practices Continue
Jan 13,
2004
Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal Begins
Apr 28,
2004
“60 Minutes II” Broadcasts Exposé of Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse
May 2,
2004
Taguba Report Confirms Abuse by U.S. Military at Abu Ghraib Prison
Oct 24,
2005
Rosa Parks, Hero of Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dies
May 29,
2007
Supreme Court Denies Lily Ledbetter Remedy for Unequal Pay
Jan 21,
2008
John Lewis Returns to Scene of 1961 Freedom Ride Beating; Reconciles with Attacker
Jan 22,
2009
President Obama Orders Closing of Guantanamo Bay
Jan 29,
2009
President Obama Signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into Law
Feb 3,
2009
Eric Holder Becomes First African-American Attorney General
May 31,
2009
Dr. George Tiller, Abortion Provider, Shot and Killed
Sep 30,
2009
International Blasphemy Day Founded
Jan 29,
2010
Too Much Anne Frank Sexuality! Virginia Parents Object
Jun 27,
2011
Supreme Court Invalidates California Video Games Censorship Law
Feb 21,
2012
Censorship Foe Barney Rosset Dies
Jun 17,
2012
Silent Marches Protest Police “Stop and Frisk” Policies
Aug 12,
2013
NYC Police’s Stop and Frisk Practices Ruled Unconstitutional
Jul 17,
2014
“I Can’t Breathe:” Eric Garner Choked to Death by NYPD Police Officers
Aug 9,
2014
Unarmed Michael Brown Shot and Killed by Ferguson, Missouri, Police Officer – Nationwide Protests Follow
Dec 31,
2014
Acclaimed Film “Selma” Provokes Controversy over President Johnson, Other Issues
Mar 4,
2015
DOJ Issues Blistering Report on Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department
Mar 4,
2015
President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing Releases Interim Report
May 2,
2015
Folk Singer Guy Carawan Dies; Taught “We Shall Overcome” to Sit-In Leaders
Oct 23,
2015
FBI Director James Comey Blames Police Critics For Recent Rise in Violent Crime
Apr 16,
2016
Washington Post Wins Pulitzer for Path-Breaking Reporting on People Shot by the Police
Sep 7,
2016
Woman WW II Veteran Wins Right to Burial at Arlington Cemetary
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