Changes in My Lifetime - Civil Rights
- 1947: Hollywood blacklist,
McCarthyism
- 1954: Brown v. Board of Education
- 1955: Rosa Parks,
Montgomery Bus Boycott
- 1957: Little Rock Nine
- 1960: Civil Rights Act (voter registration)
- 1962: James Meredith enrolls at the University of Mississippi
- 1963: March on Washington
- 1964: Civil Rights Act (anti-discrimination, EEOC)
- 1965: Selma to Montgomery marches
- 1965: Voting Rights Act
- 1965: Watts Riots
- 1965: Griswold v. Connecticut (privacy, contraceptives)
- 1967: Detroit Riots
- 1967: Loving vs Virginia (interracial marriage)
- 1967: Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court
- 1968: Martin Luther King Jr assassinated
- 1968: Fair Housing Act
- 1970: Kent State shootings
- 1973: Roe v. Wade
- 1978: Harvey Milk assassinated
- 1984: Women's Liberation
- 1986: Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)
- 1992: Rodney King (Los Angeles riots)
- 1992: Manzanar designated a
National Historic Site,
NPS
- 1993: Don't ask, don't tell
- 1996: Defense of Marriage Act
- 2001: 9/11,
War on Terror,
TSA,
National Security Letter,
USA PATRIOT Act
- 2001: Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp
- 2004: Abu Ghraib prison
- 2008: Same-sex marriage in California, Prop 8
- 2008: Barack Obama elected
I use Manzanar as a handle for all of the US WW II concentration camps
for Japanese Americans. I have been there several times and I
have several friends with Japanese ancestry.
I was born before the camps closed, so technically I could add their closing
to my list of changes.
They are a wonderful example of a bad idea.
It's hard to think of anything else we as a country have done in my
lifetime that is so stupid.
Well, it was. Now we have detention at Guantánamo Bay
and torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
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