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1619: Hannah-Jones, Nikole, et al. “The 1619 Project.” The New York Times Magazine, August 18, 2019.
https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf 

1667:  “Slavery and the Making of America . Timeline: PBS.” Slavery and the Making of America . Timeline | PBS. Accessed April 17, 2020.
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1705.html

1676: Reynolds, Jason, and Ibram X. Kendi. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

1704: “The History of Policing in the United States, Part 1.” The History of Policing in the United States, Part 1 | Police Studies Online. Accessed December 9, 2019.
https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/history-policing-united-states-part-1.

1774: Hannah-jones, Nikole. “America Wasn't a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One.” The New York Times. The New York Times, August 14, 2019.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/black-history-american-democracy.html.

1790: Muhammad, Gibran Khalil. “In Punishment We Trust?: The Logic and Legacy of American Punitiveness”

1830: Hannah-Jones, Nikole, et al. “The 1619 Project.” 

1847: H., Charles, White, Walter, Hastie, William, Spingarn, Joel, et al. “Brown v. Board at Fifty: ‘With an Even Hand’ A Century of Racial Segregation, 1849–1950.” A Century of Racial Segregation 1849–1950 - Brown v. Board at Fifty: "With an Even Hand" | Exhibitions - Library of Congress, November 13, 2004.
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-segregation.html.

1850: “The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom Legal Timeline.” Library of Congress. Library of Congress, October 10, 2014.
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/legal-events-timeline.html

1857: Ibid.

1865: History.com Editors. “Reconstruction.” History.com. A&E Television Networks, October 29, 2009.
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction

1866:  Tarter, Brent. Vagrancy Act of 1866. Accessed April 10, 2020.
https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Vagrancy_Act_of_1866

1866:  “The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom Legal Timeline.” Library of Congress. Library of Congress, October 10, 2014.
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/legal-events-timeline.html

1868: “14th Amendment.” Legal Information Institute. Legal Information Institute. Accessed April 13, 2020.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv

1868: Muller, Christopher. “Freedom and Convict Leasing in the Postbellum South.” American Journal of Sociology 124, no. 2 (2018): 367–405.
https://doi.org/10.1086/698481

1870: “15th Amendment.” Legal Information Institute. Legal Information Institute. Accessed April 13, 2020.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv

1875: Linderd. Lynching Statistics. Accessed February 24, 2020.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html

1877: “Jim Crow Era.” Jim Crow Era - Timeline - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State University,
www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/timeline/jimcrow.htm

1879: “Exodusters.” National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior,
www.nps.gov/home/learn/historyculture/exodusters.htm

1882-1968: Linderd. Lynching Statistics. Accessed February 24, 2020.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html 

1883: Ibid. 

1896: “Plessy V. Ferguson.” {{meta.siteName}}. Accessed April 13, 2020.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1850-1900/163us537

1913: Matthews, Dylan. “Woodrow Wilson Was Extremely Racist - Even by the Standards of His Time.” Vox. Vox, November 20, 2015. 

1915: Ibid. 

1917: “The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom Legal Timeline.” Legal Timeline - The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom | Exhibitions - Library of Congress, October 10, 2014.
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/legal-events-timeline.html

1917:  Wang, Tabitha. “East St. Louis Race Riot, 1917.” Welcome to Blackpast •, June 19, 2019.
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/east-st-louis-race-riot-1917/
           Du Bois, W.E.B. “The Massacre of East St. Louis.” The Crisis, Sept. 1917, pp. 219–238, http://transcription.si.edu/project/22609.

1921: “1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.” Tulsa Historical Society & Museum. Accessed April 14, 2020.
https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacre/

1926:  “Corrigan v. Buckley, 271 U.S. 323 (1926).” Civil Liberties and Civil Rights in the United States. Accessed September 25, 2019. https://uscivilliberties.org/cases/3650-corrigan-v-buckley-271-us-323-1926.html
           Elkins, Alex, Alex Elkins, Peter Frase, Mike Beggs, Nivedita Majumdar, Alexander Billet, Noam Chomsky, et al. “The Origins of Stop-and-Frisk.” Jacobin, September 5, 2015. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/stop-and-frisk-dragnet-ferguson-baltimore/.

1933: “National Industrial Recovery Act (1933).” Our Documents - National Industrial Recovery Act (1933). Accessed April 14, 2020. https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=66

1934: “National Housing Act (1934).” Living New Deal. Accessed September 25, 2019.
https://livingnewdeal.org/glossary/national-housing-act-1934/.

1937: “1937: Housing Act (Wagner-Steagall Act).” Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston. Accessed September 30, 2019.
https://www.bostonfairhousing.org/timeline/1937-Housing-Act.html.

1948: Corrigan v. Buckley, 271 U.S. 323 (1926).”

           “1948–1968: Unenforceable Restrictive Covenants.” Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston. Accessed September 30, 2019.   

1949:  Nodjimbadem, Katie. “The Racial Segregation of American Cities Was Anything But Accidental.” Smithsonian.com. Smithsonian Institution, May 30, 2017.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-federal-government-intentionally-racially-segregated-american-cities-180963494/.
United States, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Major Legislation on Housing and Urban Development Enacted Since 1932.
www.hud.gov/sites/documents/LEGS_CHRON_JUNE2014.PDF

1954: “The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom Legal Timeline.”

1955: “Emmett Till Is Murdered.” History.com. A&E Television Networks, February 9, 2010.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till

1955:History of School Resource Officers .” History. Accessed November 13, 2019.
http://blackfootpolice.org/sro/sro_history.html

1956: Jr, James H. Hershman. Massive Resistance. Accessed February 25, 2020.
https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Massive_Resistance#start_entry

1964:  Georges, Jessica. “The Origins of ‘Antibusing’ Politics: New York City Protests and Revision of the Civil Rights Act.” The Gotham Center for New York City History. The Gotham Center for New York City History, October 4, 2016.
https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/the-origins-of-antibusing-politics-new-york-city-protests-and-revision-of-the-civil-rights-act.

1964:  Ronayne , John A. “The Right to Investigate and New York's ‘Stop and Frisk’ Law.” Fordham Law Review 33, no. 2 (1964). https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol33/iss2/3
           Stultz, Spencer. “The Harlem Race Riot of 1964.” Welcome to Blackpast •, January 10, 2020.
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/harlem-race-riot-1964/.

1968:  “1968: Federal Fair Housing Act.” Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston. Accessed September 30, 2019. https://www.bostonfairhousing.org/timeline/1968-Fair-Housing-Act.html

1971:  “A Brief History of the Drug War.” Drug Policy Alliance. Accessed November 13, 2019.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/brief-history-drug-war

1973: “The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom Legal Timeline.”

1973:  Bell, Charles. “The Hidden Side of Zero Tolerance Policies: The African American Perspective.” Sociology compass. U.S. National Library of Medicine, January 1, 2015.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4397655/

1974: “Read ‘Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice’ at NAP.edu.” National Academies Press: OpenBook. Accessed November 13, 2019. https://www.nap.edu/read/9747/chapter/7#155

1974:  “The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom Legal Timeline.”

1975:  “Stop and Frisk.” Legal Information Institute. Legal Information Institute. Accessed November 13, 2019.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/stop_and_frisk

1980:  Steil, Justin P., Len Albright, Jacob S. Rugh, and Douglas S. Massey. “The Social Structure of Mortgage Discrimination.” Housing Studies 33, no. 5 (March 2017): 759–76.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2017.1390076

1982: “A Brief History of the Drug War.” Drug Policy Alliance. Accessed June 12, 2020.
https://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/brief-history-drug-war

1982:  “Reagan's Legacy: Homelessness in America.” Shelterforce, April 10, 2016.
https://shelterforce.org/2004/05/01/reagans-legacy-homelessness-in-america/

1982: Vedantam, Shankar, Chris Benderev, Tara Boyle, Renee Klahr, Maggie Penman, and Jennifer Schmidt. “How A Theory Of Crime And Policing Was Born, And Went Terribly Wrong.” How A Theory Of Crime And Policing Was Born, And Went Terribly Wrong | WBUR News. WBUR, November 1, 2016.
https://www.wbur.org/npr/500104506/broken-windows-policing-and-the-origins-of-stop-and-frisk-and-how-it-went-wrong

1986: (1986) “War on Drugs” 

1991: “Los Angeles Riots Fast Facts.” CNN. Cable News Network, April 12, 2020.
https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/18/us/los-angeles-riots-fast-facts/index.html.
           Sastry, Anjuli, and Karen Grigsby Bates. “When LA Erupted In Anger: A Look Back At The Rodney King Riots.” NPR. NPR, April 26, 2017.

https://www.npr.org/2017/04/26/524744989/when-la-erupted-in-anger-a-look-back-at-the-rodney-king-riots.
           Newton, Jim. “Op-Ed: Rodney King's Beating Provides a Road Map for Investigating Police Misconduct.” Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, June 11, 2020.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-11/rodney-king-police-misconduct-investigations.
           “Rodney King Trial Verdict Announced.” History.com. A&E Television Networks, July 27, 2019.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rodney-king-trial-verdict-announced.
           “Race & Policing - The Legacy Of Rodney King | PBS - L.a.p.d. Blues | FRONTLINE.” PBS. Public Broadcasting Service. Accessed June 14, 2020.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/lapd/race/king.html

1994: “Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.” National Criminal Justice Reference Service. Accessed November 13, 2019.
https://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/billfs.txt

1995: “The Superpredator Myth, 20 Years Later.” Equal Justice Initiative, January 16, 2020.
https://eji.org/news/superpredator-myth-20-years-later/

1996: “Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . American Varieties . AAVE . Hooked.” PBS. Public Broadcasting Service. Accessed June 12, 2020.
https://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/AAVE/hooked/

1996: Benjamin R. Orye III, The Failure of Words: Habeas Corpus Reform, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, and When a Judgment of Conviction Becomes Final for the Purposes of 28 U.S.C. 2255(1), 44 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 441 (2002), https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmlr/vol44/iss1/8 

1998:  Rugh, Jacob S., and Douglas S. Massey. “Racial Segregation and the American Foreclosure Crisis.” American Sociological Review 75, no. 5 (2010): 629–51. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122410380868

2006: Trifun, Natasha M. “Residential Segregation after the Fair Housing Act.” American Bar Association. American Bar Association, October 1, 2009.
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol36_2009/fall2009/residential_segregation_after_the_fair_housing_act/

2007:  Steil, Justin P., Len Albright, Jacob S. Rugh, and Douglas S. Massey. “The Social Structure of Mortgage Discrimination.” Housing Studies 33, no. 5 (March 2017): 759–76.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2017.1390076

2007:  “Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1.” Brennan Center for Justice. Brennan Center for Justice, June 28, 2007.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/court-cases/parents-involved-community-schools-v-seattle-school-district-no-1

2009-2010: Wilf, Rachel. “Disparities in School Discipline Move Students of Color Toward Prison.” Center for American Progress, March 13, 2012.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13/11350/disparities-in-school-discipline-move-students-of-color-toward-prison/

2012: “Trayvon Martin Shooting Fast Facts.” CNN. Cable News Network, February 17, 2020.
https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/05/us/trayvon-martin-shooting-fast-facts/index.html

2014: Bosman, Julie, and Joseph Goldstein. “Timeline for a Body: 4 Hours in the Middle of a Ferguson Street.” The New York Times. The New York Times, August 23, 2014.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/us/michael-brown-a-bodys-timeline-4-hours-on-a-ferguson-street.html?auth=login-google

2014: Lopez, German. “Cleveland Just Fired the Cop Who Shot and Killed 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice More than 2 Years Ago.” Vox. Vox, May 30, 2017.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/5/30/15713254/cleveland-police-tamir-rice-timothy-loehmann          
           Lopez, German. “Cleveland Police Shooting of Tamir Rice: City to Pay $6 Million after 12-Year-Old's Death.” Vox. Vox, November 24, 2014.

https://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7275297/tamir-rice-police-shooting

2015: Hassan, Adeel. "The Sandra Bland Video: What We Know." The New York Times. May 07, 2019. Accessed June 18, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/us/sandra-bland-brian-encinia.html

2016: Toohey, Grace. "Body Camera Video Shows 6-year-old Orlando Girl Arrested at School." Tampa Bay Times. February 26, 2020. Accessed June 18, 2020.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2020/02/25/body-camera-video-shows-6-year-old-orlando-girl-arrested-at-school/

2020: Ring, Trudy. “Black Trans Man Tony McDade Killed by Police in Florida.” ADVOCATE. Advocate.com, May 29, 2020. https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/5/29/black-trans-man-tony-mcdade-killed-police-florida

2020: Cobb, Jelani. “The Death of George Floyd, in Context.” The New Yorker. The New Yorker, June 2, 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-death-of-george-floyd-in-context
           Hill, Evan, Ainara Tiefenthäler, Christiaan Triebert, Drew Jordan, Haley Willis, and Robin Stein. “8 Minutes and 46 Seconds: How George Floyd Was Killed in Police Custody.” The New York Times. The New York Times, June 1, 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/george-floyd-investigation.html.