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In Reverse Chronological Order

Note that future events denote that the event is planned and has not happened. You can use this to announce an event or to describe historical events. Please follow-up with descriptions and other resource links about the date.

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2008

  • November 4, 2008 - Election Day, Presidential cycle, Ward Connerly's envisioned "Super Tuesday for Equality" in 5 states.
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2007

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2006

  • December 23, 2006 - Original date MCRI was scheduled to go into effect by Michigan Constitution. Effective date was delayed by litigation until early January, 2007.
  • November 7, 2006 - Michigan Civil Rights Initiative approved by 58% of Michigan voters.
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2005

  • January 6, 2005 - Michigan Civil Rights Initiative Committee submits an estimated 508,000 signature to the Michigan Secretary of State.
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2004

  • July 5, 2004 - Deadline passes for filing petitions for November 2004 election. The following day, MCRI restarts its volunteer petition drive and formally starts a full-time paid effort.
  • June 11, 2004 - Court of Appeals overturns Manderfield ruling on the petition language issue and sustains all other MCRI arguments only three weeks before petition deadline. MCRI shortly thereafter announces its intent to qualify for the November 2006 election.
  • March 26, 2004 - Wayne County Circuit Judge Susan Borman issues ruling on separate case by individuals arguing MCRI has no First Amendment right to even circulate any petition that might create a "hostile racial environment." Borman rules for MCRI citing no precedent in 200 years of American history that would allow such an argument to prevail.
  • March 25, 2004 - Ingham County Circuit Judge Paula Manderfield issues ruling for MCRI on four of five issues in By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) lawsuit but orders an effective change to petition language. MCRI appeals.
  • January 12, 2004 - Michigan Civil Rights Initiative formally kicks off.
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2003

  • October 7, 2003 - Ward Connerly's Proposition 54, known as the Racial Privacy Initiative (RPI), loses in California by a two to one margin in a special election (alongside the California Gubernatorial Recall election). RPI would have banned most racial data collection.
  • July 8, 2003 - MCRI announces formation in speeches by Ward Connerly and others in Ann Arbor, MI, on the campus of the University of Michigan.
  • June 23, 2003 - Supreme Court of the United States issues rulings in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, et al.
  • April 2, 2003 - Supreme Court of the United States holds oral arguments in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, et al.
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Twentieth Century (1900-2000)

  • 1965 - Voting Rights Act passed.
  • 1964 - Civil Rights Act passed.
  • March 6, 1961 - Executive Order 10925 signed by John F. Kennedy.
  • 1954 - Brown v. Board of Education ruling handed down by US Supreme Court.
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Nineteenth Century (1800-1900)

  • 1896 - Plessy v. Ferguson decided by the United States Supreme Court. Ruling essentially finds segregation permissable under a "separate but equal theory".
  • 1857 - Dred Scott cased decided by the United States Supreme Court. Ruling finds that Congress had no authority to enact the Missouri Compromise and that Dred Scott was not entitled to standing as a citizen to sue because he was black. Both aspects of the ruling are condemned by forces on each side of the political debate, and the ruling ironically is one factor in the Civil War its author's probably sought to avoid through compromise.
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Pre-Nineteenth Century

  • July 8, 1777 - The Republic of Vermont enacts the first Constitution clearly prohibiting slavery, modeled after language found in the Declaration of Independence. Since it was admitted as the 14th state in 1791, it was arguably not the first state to prohibit slavery, but it was the first American government to do so.
  • July 4, 1776 - Principle of human equality, although not yet perfected, written into the Declaration of Independence.

1640 - Virginia courts are the first to define slavery in racial terms, leading to a trend that resulted in the large majority of slaves being of African descent and the first moral justifications based on alleged racial inferiority. 1619 - First known indentured servant ship arrives at Plymouth Rock in America.

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Miscellaneous

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