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Discrimination
1997 Hooters agrees to pay $2 million in discrimination suits

1994 Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals

1983 Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)

1983 U.S. District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination

1980 U.S. Justice Department sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination

1978 Supreme Court orders California medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected

1974 Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application

1972 President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports

1971 State of Washington becomes 1st state to ban sex discrimination

1971 Washington State bans sex discrimination

1968 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing

1957 New York City is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)

1955 India poses discrimination "onaanraakbaren" punishable

1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation and discrimination

1946 U.S. Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel

1945 New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race and creed in employment

1943 U.S. forbid racial discrimination in war industry

1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination

1940 Black leaders protest discrimination in U.S. Armed Forces

1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination



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