The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition

1971

20 April Swannv. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Educationapproves busing to

achieve school desegregation.

18 December PUSH organizes.

1972

8 March Equal Employment Opportunity Act becomes law.

1974

25 July Millikenv. Bradleybars school busing across district lines without proof that

the lines were drawn in a racially discriminatory manner.

1978

28 June Regents of the University of Californiav. Bakkerejects racial quotas.

1984

Fall Jesse Jackson makes the first serious presidential race by a black candidate.

1986

15 January King’s birthday is observed as a US national holiday for the first time.

1989

7 November L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected black governor.

1995

16 October Louis Farrakhan organizes the Million Man March on Washington.

1996

5 November California voters pass Proposition 209, prohibiting affirmative action in

public hiring, contracting, and college admissions.

2003

25 June Grutter v. Bollingerpermits universities to use race to diversify their student

bodies.

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