Picture This Site Map
Timeline
- Early California: pre-1769–1840s
- Gold Rush: 1848–1860
- Early Statehood: 1850 – 1880s
- Progressive Era: 1890–1920s
- Depression Era: 1930s
- Depression
- Second Generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) before WWII
- Watsonville Riots
- Repatriation for Mexican & Filipino Farm Workers
- Racial Status Quo, Mostly
- Chinatown: De Facto Segregation
- Education: Locally Decided
- Amelia Earhart, Local / National Heroine
- Integration
- “Bloody Thursday” & Other Labor Strikes
- World War II Homefront Era: 1940s
- Women Replace Men in the Workforce
- Internment of 120,000 Persons of Japanese Ancestry
- Bracero Program Establishes New Migration Patterns
- The Port Chicago Incident
- African American Trailblazers in Sports
- Momentous Change for Chinese Americans
- Latin & Black Entertainers Advance On/Off Stage
- African Americans in CA Cities: A Political Force for Change
- War Vets Protest Housing Shortages
- Post War Workers Protest Salary Cuts & Layoffs
- Homogenization, Protests & Outright Rebellion: 1950s
- Coach Powles’s Athletes Find Success
- Civil Rights on the Battlefield and in the Courts
- Highways to Suburbanization
- Native Americans Move to the City—The Urban Relocation Program
- Unforgettable Change: 1960s
- Cesar Chavez Organizes the United Farm Workers
- Free Speech Movement & The New American Left
- Civil Rights Marches Against Hiring Practices
- The Vietnam War
- Protest Marches Grow Into The Antiwar Movement
- Black Panther Party: A Black Power Alternative
- Chicano Movement
- Rumford Act, Prop 14, & Watts Riot
- 1960s in Vietnam and in Berkeley
- The New Right Elects Ronald Reagan Governor
- People’s Park Fights UC Land Use Policy; One Dead, Thousands Tear Gassed
- American Indians Occupy Alcatraz
- Cultural Realignment & Economic Recession: 1970s
- The Reagan Years: 1980s
- UFW Protests Pesticides Use
- Growth of a Community: Gay Life from Local Theatre to International Sports Games
- Apex of Black Political Power in the Age of Reagan
- Advancement & Backlash for Women’s Movement
- Loma Prieta Earthquake in Northern California
- AIDS Strikes Gay Rights Movement
- New Californians from Mexico, Central America, and Southeast Asia
- Mexican American Culture
- 1990s to Present
