BME 310 Timeline
1945 United Nations (UN) formed
1946 Mendez et al. v. Westminister School District of Orange County (Calif.)
1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1948 Delgado v. Bastrop
Independent School District (Texas)
1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott
1964 Civil Rights Act
1965 Elementary and Secondary Education
Act
1966 UN International Covenant on Civil &
Political Rights (Including right to self-determination)
1966 Founding of Rough Rock Demonstration
School
1968 Bilingual Education Act
1969 Indian
Education: A National Tragedy—A National Challenge (Kennedy Report)
1970 Cisneros v. Corpus Christi Independent School
District (Texas)
1972 Indian Education Act
1973 San Antonio Independent
School District v. Rodriguez
1974 Lau v.
Nichols
1975 Indian Self-Determination and Education
Assistance Act
1978 American Indian
Religious Freedom Act
1990 Native American Languages Act
1992 UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons
Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
1993 UN International Year of the WorldÕs
Indigenous People
2001 No Child Left Behind Act
2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples
2008 International Year of Languages declared by UN