Sum of Us Timeline by Naehee Kwun

US Declaration of Independence 1776

2023-05-15 17:21:01 UTC

Mendez vs. Westminster (1947)

catheryyeh — 2023-05-15 17:21:16 UTC

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

2023-05-18 19:52:20 UTC

Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)

2023-05-18 19:53:28 UTC

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

2023-05-18 19:54:33 UTC

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

2023-05-18 19:56:19 UTC

Brown vs Board of Education (1954)

2023-05-18 19:58:03 UTC

Voting Rights Act of 1965

2023-05-18 19:59:13 UTC

13th Amendment (1865)

2023-05-18 20:00:43 UTC

14th Amendment (1866)

2023-05-18 20:02:27 UTC

15th Amendment (1869)

2023-05-18 20:03:28 UTC

Executive Order 9066 (1942)

2023-05-18 20:05:39 UTC

Red Summer (1919)

2023-05-18 20:10:21 UTC

Watts Rebellion (1965)

2023-05-18 20:12:28 UTC

Los Angeles Rebellion (1992)

2023-05-18 20:13:28 UTC

Bandung Conference (1955)

2023-05-18 20:17:03 UTC

Stop AAPI Hate (March 2020)

naeheekwun — 2023-06-05 22:10:17 UTC

U.S. v. Pacific Movement of the Eastern World (1942)

kbrown48 — 2023-06-08 22:31:31 UTC

Immigration Act of 1924

2023-06-13 21:25:25 UTC

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1924-law-slammed-door-immigrants-and-politicians-who-pushed-it-back-open-180974910/

What does math have to do with human solidarity?

matthews_lou — 2023-10-09 21:18:03 UTC

Model minority
Math achievement as a tool to distinguish minoritized groups
Math data is problematic. How do we use it?

Malcom X and Yuri Kochiyama partnership

2023-10-09 21:32:46 UTC

1869: American abolitionist Frederick Douglass denounced the Chinese Exclusion Act in his “Composite Nation” Speech. "Only one-fifth of the population of the globe is white,” he argued in 1869, noting that “the other four-fifths are colored and ought to have some weight and influence.”

2023-10-09 22:41:13 UTC

During the Philippine-American War, Black leaders and soldiers opposed US colonization (1899-1902)

2023-10-09 22:45:36 UTC

African Americans protested against the Vietnam War (1965-1975)

2023-10-09 22:47:00 UTC

Jun Fujita, a Japanese-American photojournalist and poet documents the 1919 Race Riots in Chicago (1919; begins nine minutes in)

2023-10-09 22:52:53 UTC

Grace Lee and James Boggs dedicated seven decades of their life to revolutionary justice and civil rights in Detroit (1915-2015)

2023-10-09 22:55:43 UTC

Third World Liberation Front - Formation, sit-ins, strikes, and more (1968)

2023-10-09 23:02:17 UTC

Thích Nhất Hạnh, a Zen buddhist monk and peace activist from Vietnam meets Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr in 1966, after corresponding with him. The two become close friends and King nominates Hahn for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1967.

2023-10-09 23:10:09 UTC

The Emergency Detention Act of (1950) was repealed due to joint Black and Japanese activism. This law would have given the US President the power to establish concentration camps at any time. (1967-1971)

2023-10-09 23:13:18 UTC

The term “Asian American” was coined by UC Berkeley students who were inspired by the Black Power Movement (1968)

2023-10-09 23:15:27 UTC

Letters for Black Lives an organization that provides multi-lingual resources to help people talk about Black Lives Matter with their families, was started by young Asian Americans (2016)

2023-10-09 23:18:39 UTC

Black & Asian Solidarity coalition building (2020)

2023-10-16 15:30:05 UTC

AIDS Crisis and Denial

2023-10-27 18:08:45 UTC

To promote erasure of gay and Black men.

Loving vs. Virginia

2023-10-27 18:11:07 UTC

Coalition following Vincent Chin murder (1980s-current)

2023-10-27 18:11:08 UTC

Disability Rights Movement

2023-10-27 18:12:21 UTC

IDEA, ADA, Section 504 all came about through a solidarity with the Civil Rights movement.

McCarthyism

2023-10-27 18:12:21 UTC

To ensure singular promotion of capitalist thought and erasure of sociality thought.

Harvest of Empire

2023-10-27 18:13:03 UTC

The Untold Story of Latin America