Black Radical Traditions in US South Timeline
1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
GLOBAL
TRADE
EXPANDS
1899-1902 —
World War I
1918 — Council on
Foreign Relations
1927 —
Creation of Saudi
Arabia
1934 —
Export-Import
Bank
1936 — Keynesianism developed
Economic
History
Boer War
1902 — Japan joins
the Gold Standard
1905 — RussoJapanese War
1914-1918 —
GREAT
DEPRESSION
Crow established
throughout the US
South as response to
first Reconstruction
1906 — Atlanta
Race Riot against
Black residents
1917 — US
Immigration Act
— US race riots
1919 — Int’l Labor
Organization
— League of Nations
Policy
History
Governement
World War II
1942 — Bracero
Program
1944 — Bretton
Woods
1948 — Cold War
1949 — NATO
formed
1950-1953 —
1960 — OPEC
Korean War
1953 — Iranian
Shah restored
1958 & 1959 —
Computer chip
invented
formed
1960-Present —
African
neocolonization
1965 — Vietnam
War
NEW DEAL SOCIAL CONTRACT
1905 — Jim
1924 — National
Origins Act (US)
1927 — Creation of
Saudi Arabia
1935 — Wagner
Act
1938 — Fair Labor
Standards Act (min.
wage 25 cents/hour,
40 hour workweek)
1941 — Atlantic
Charter
1945 —
Dumbarton Oaks
proposal. UN formed
1946 — Taft-Hartley
1947 — Marshall
Plan
— Truman Doctrine
1948 — Israel
1952 — McCarranWalter Act
— Egyptian coup
1954 — Brown v
Board of Education
1955 — Bandung
Conference
1958 — European
Common Market
TRADE UNION
ANTI-LYNCHING &
MOVEMENT
COMMUNITY CONTROL
1905 —
IWW founded
1909 — NAACP
founded
Popular
Movement
History
1939-1945 —
Project South
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Timeline
1910 —
International
Women’s Day
1914 — UNIA
1917 — WEB Du Bois
issues “Close Ranks”
— Sleeping Car
Porters organized
1917-1921 —
Russian
Revolution
1919 — Red
Summer
1920 — Debbs runs
for Presidency
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1931 —
Share-croppers
Union
1935 — Tuskegee
Experiement
1934 — Southern
Textile Strike
1935 — US race
riots
1945 — AllColonial People’s
Conference
— Fifth Pan-African
Congress
1946 — Operation
Dixie by CIO union
1947 — Cotton
picker machine
GENERAL ECONOMIC
DECLINE
GENERAL ECONOMIC
EXPANSION
1981-82 —
SAPs initiatied
1983 — US invasion
of Grenada
— Caribbean Basin
Initiative
WAR ON POVERTY SOCIAL CONTRACT
SOCIAL CONTRACT
WEAKENS
EXPANDS
1963 — OAU
formed
1966 — ICCPR &
ICESCR
CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENTS
1951 — We
Charge Genocide
1955 — Brown vs
Board of Education
1955 — Montgomery
Bus Boycott
1956- African
Liberation from
colonialsim
1970 —
Computer chip
used in production
1971 — Sales of 500
largest corps = $721
billion
1973 — US
abandons gold
standard
1960 — Sit-in
Movement
1963 — March on
Washington
1965 — VRA passed
1966 — Black
Panther Party
1967 — National
Welfare Rights
1973 — Trilateral
Commission
formed
1974 — Principles of
NIEO
1986-1994 —
“Uruguay Round” of
1986 — IMF forms
Structural Adjustment
Facility
1989 — World Bank
forms Structural
Adjustment Facility
BLACK POWER
PAN AFRICAN
STRUGGLES
1971 — Attica
Prison uprising
1972 — Black
Political Convention
1974 —
1977 — Atlanta
Child Murders
1991 —
Gulf War
— 500 largest corps
sales = $5.2 trillion
1994 — NAFTA
1997 — Global North
gets $77 billion loan
profits
2001 — US
stock market
plumets
after 911
2002 — Euro begins
circulation
2003 —35.9 million
Americans in
poverty
NEOLIBERALISM
SOCIAL CONTRACT BROKEN
1992 — New
wedge issues
appear in OR & CO
1994 — FTAA negotiations begin
1995 — WTO
1996 — TANF
ANTI-APARTIED &
COMMUNITY CONTROL
1983 — US
Invades ge
1987 —
1989 — Up & Out of
Poverty Now! Summit
1991 —
Environmental
Justice movement
1995 — El Barzón
1997 — Haitian
general strike
1999 — WTO
shut down
2001 —
2003 —
2003-5 — GGJ
2004 — African
Social Forum in
Lusaka, Zambia
2007 — USSF
held in Atlanta.
GLOBAL
ECONOMY