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Texaco settles a racial discrimination suit for $176 million. The case was initially filed by six African American Texaco employees who charged they had been denied promotion and pay increases because of their race; it later grew to cover 1,400 employees.
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Amid growing racial tension in the South, nearly 40 primarily African American churches are burned there.
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Basketball star Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win their fifth NBA championship.
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Haitian immigrant Abner Louima is beaten and sodomized with a broomstick by officers while in New York City Police Department custody, causing a national outcry. In 2002, a federal court will overturn the conviction of the three NYPD officers.
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A California court upholds the constitutionality of Proposition 209, which outlaws state affirmative action programs.
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Tiger Woods becomes the first African American to win the Masters tournament, as well as the youngest golfer ever to do so.
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DNA evidence reveals that Thomas Jefferson probably fathered a child with Sally Hemings, one of his slaves.
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J.C. Watts, a Congressman from Oklahoma, becomes the first African American to be elected to a position of leadership in the Republican Party.
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Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African American man, is mistakenly shot and killed by four white policemen in New York City, raising a national furor.
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A group of African American farmers wins a suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture for discriminating against them in giving out loans and subsidies.
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After a massive protest rally and NAACP boycott, the governor of South Carolina has a Confederate flag on top of the statehouse dome moved to a less conspicuous place.
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Venus Williams wins the singles title at Wimbledon, becoming the first African American woman to do so since Althea Gibson in 1958.
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In the largest settlement ever in a U.S. racial discrimination suit, the Coca-Cola Company agrees to pay out $192.5 million to roughly 2,000 African American employees.
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Halle Berry becomes the first African American woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress, for her performance in Monster's Ball.
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The Slavery Reparations Coordinating Committee, led by prominent African American lawyers and activists, announces plans to sue companies that profited from slavery.
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