Overview and Timeline
The history of the United States is usually taught in school from the perspective of the dominant culture (that is, from a colonizer’s perspective). The typical story about race in the U.S. lays out some of the struggles, but without fully explaining the causes – particularly the racist policies and actions of the U.S. government. These include the genocide of Native Americans and the continued breaking of numerous treaties with Native American nations; internment of American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II (though not German Americans), constitutional encoding of enslavement of Africans and others until the passage of the 13th Amendment, the post 13th Amendment imposition of Jim Crow and Sundown laws, and racial profiling of Latinos and African Americans and other people of color that continues today. The typical historical story also does not acknowledge the impact of these policies and laws today, specifically in how communities of color fare in basic areas such as education, housing, etc. Knowing our history is a critical component for understanding racial inequities and structural racism. This section provides timelines from several sources acknowledging key events and decisions in the history of racism.
- History is a Weapon
- The Knotted Line
- The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed
- Timeline of Selected Events in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
- Race: Power of an Illusion
- Teaching a People's History,
- History of Racism and Immigration Timeline: Key Events in the Struggle for Racial Equality
- Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History
- Racism, History and Lies
- A Brief Timeline of U.S. Policy on Immigration and Naturalization
- U.S. Immigration Timeline
- Over 35 Years of effort addressing the use of American Indian related sports team mascots
- Environmental Justice Milestones and Accomplishments:1964-2014
- How Black Land Became White Sand: The Racial Erosion of the US Coasts
- Timeline: From Brown v. Board to Segregation Now
- Voices of the People's History of the United States
- A Decade of Young Black Bodies Felled by Bullets
- Timeline of Race, Racism, Resistance and Philanthropy 1992-2014
- EJI's History of Racial Injustice Online Timeline
- Civil Rights and Human Rights
- Historical Shift from Explicit to Implicit Policies Affecting Housing Segregation in Eastern MA
- Black Activism on Campus
- Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy
- History of Migration, Citizenship and Belonging
- Lynching In America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
- Structural Racism Timeline
- Gallery of Timelines
- Stifled Generosity: How philanthropy has fueled the accumulation and privatization of wealth
- A Different Asian American Timeline
