Legal/Political Timeline

  • 1926 - Corrigan v. Buckley

  • 1948 - Kraemer v. Shelley

  • 1954 - Brown v. Board

  • 1963 - Rumford Fair Housing Act

  • 1964 - Proposition 14 passes in California

  • 1966 - California Supreme Court rules Proposition 14 unconstitutional

  • 1968 - Civil Rights Act (Title VIII - Fair Housing Act)

  • 1976 - President Carter signals shift away from racial liberalism in public speech

Group Timeline

Lawrence Tract Association, Inc.

  • 1954 - Purchases deed to 1.19-acre recreational space from the City of Palo Alto for $25.

  • Mediates sale of property, ensuring racial quotas kept (this time in favor of a white buyer)

Palo Alto Fair Play Council

  • 1945 - Begins work to connect Japanese Americans with housing and employment

Mid-Peninsula Citizens for Fair Housing

Palo Alto NAACP

  • 1964 - 1,000-person march protesting California Real Estate Association support for Proposition 14.

Quakers and Associated Groups

California Council for Civic Unity

Neighborhood Timeline

  • Moving In/Out

  • Holidays

  • Events (BBQs, etc.)