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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