Lagarde writes in a blog post that International Women’s Day (annually recognized on March 8, #womensday) is a time not only to celebrate progress made but also to call attention to these inequities and their solutions. Top challenges facing working-age women globally today, according to Lagarde, include:

• Only 50 percent of women are in the labor force, and many countries still limit paid employment opportunities for women.
• Women remain largely responsible for work done in homes and in fields, much of it “unseen and unpaid.”
• The gender-wage gap is approximately 16 percent.
• Many women are taxed higher as “second earners” and discouraged from pursuing employment.
• Unemployment is on the rise, decreasing women’s chances of finding permanent positions.

“Today, although men still dominate the executive suites in most professions, women all over the world hold high positions in the private sector and in public office. Women are no longer the ‘Second Sex’ Simone de Beauvoir wrote about,” Lagarde writes. “Women have huge talents. Employers who don’t offer equal opportunities to women simply ignore a large part of the skilled workforce.

“I am an optimist and see beyond these challenges; our daughters and granddaughters will have even better opportunities than women have today. And let us always remember that when women are allowed to develop their full potential, it is not only women who gain, but the whole world,” she concludes.

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National Women’s History Month can trace its roots back to March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. International Women’s Day was first observed in 1909, but it wasn’t until 1981 that Congress established National Women’s History Week to be commemorated the second week of March. In 1987, Congress expanded the week to a month.

Emphasizing the increasing value of having women in leadership positions can help you increase cultural competence among your employees. It’s important to note how women’s roles have evolved, how flexible work arrangements allow more women to combine family and professional responsibilities, and how many glass ceilings still have not been shattered.

The timeline shown here illustrates significant dates in women’s history and major historic figures, while the facts data we have chosen to present here represents information of relevance to corporate America, such as education (available labor pool), business ownership, and progress in gaining executive and management positions.

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Black History Month is a time to commemorate achievement. DiversityInc provides a list of the important dates and relevant demographics you need to know.

“Negro History Week” was established in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, an NAACP leader, educator and historian, to recognize the central role Blacks played in the development of the United States. The second week of February was chosen to coincide with the birthdays of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, the federal government expanded the celebration to Black History Month.

Download the Black History Month Timeline and Black History Month Facts & Figures by clicking the images below.

 1600s – 1700s

• 1619 Dutch ship brings 20 Africans to Jamestown, Va., the first enslaved Africans in the U.S.
• 1793 Eli Whitney’s new cotton gin increases demand for slaves
• 1793 Congress passes Fugitive Slave Act, making it a federal crime to assist a slave trying to escape

1800s

• 1808 Congress bans importation of slaves
• 1820 Missouri Compromise bans slavery above the southern border of the state
• 1831 Nat Turner leads largest slave rebellion prior to Civil War
• 1849 Harriet Tubman escapes to Philadelphia and subsequently helps about 300 enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad
• 1857 In Dred Scott v. Sanford, U.S. Supreme Court declares that Blacks are not citizens of the U.S. and that Congress cannot prohibit
• slavery
• 1859 John Brown leads raid of U.S. Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, W.Va.
• 1861 South secedes from Union and Civil War begins
• 1863 President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring “all persons held as slaves within any State or designated
• part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free”
• 1865 Civil War ends
• 1865 Thirteenth Amendment is ratified, prohibiting slavery
• 1868 Fourteenth Amendment is ratified, allowing Blacks to become citizens
• 1870 Fifteenth Amendment guarantees that right to vote cannot be denied because of race, color or previous condition of servitude
• 1870 Hiram Revels becomes first Black member of Congress
• 1896 U.S. Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that segregation doesn’t violate the 14th Amendment’s equal-protection clause as long as conditions provided are “separate but equal”

1900s

• 1900 William H. Carney becomes first Black to be awarded Medal of Honor
• 1909 NAACP is founded
• 1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes first Black to win an Academy Award
• 1947 Jackie Robinson becomes first Black to play Major League Baseball
• 1950 Ralph J. Bunche becomes first Black to win the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1953 Willie Thrower becomes first Black to play quarterback in the National Football League
• 1954 In Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, U.S. Supreme Court rules that racial segregation in public schools violates the 14th Amendment
• 1955 Two white men who confessed to murdering a 14-year-old Black boy, Emmett Till, for allegedly whistling at a white woman are acquitted by an all-white jury
• 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott
• 1957 Little Rock Nine integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas
• 1960 Four Black students stage famous sit-in at a whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.
• 1961 Freedom rides begin from Washington, D.C.
• 1963 Four young Black girls are killed in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church
• 1962 James Meredith becomes first Black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Violence prompts President Kennedy to
• send in 5,000 federal troops
• 1963 More than 200,000 people march on Washington, D.C., in the largest civil-rights demonstration in U.S. history; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his “I Have a Dream” speech
• 1964 President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964, giving the government more power to protect citizens against race, religion, sex
• or national-origin discrimination
• 1965 Malcolm X, former minister in the Nation of Islam and civil-rights activist, is assassinated
• 1965 Thousands participate in three protest marches from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., for Black voting rights
  President Johnson signs Voting Rights Act of 1965
• 1967 Thurgood Marshall becomes first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice
  In Loving v. Virginia ruling, Supreme Court declares law prohibiting interracial marriages to be unconstitutional
• 1968 Dr. King is assassinated
  Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1968, which prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing
• 1972 Shirley Chisholm becomes first major-party Black candidate to run for president
• 1983 Vanessa Williams becomes first Black Miss America
• 1984 Reverend Jesse Jackson becomes first Black to make serious bid for presidency
• 1986 First observation of Dr. King’s birthday as a national holiday
• 1990 Douglas Wilder of Virginia becomes first Black to be elected governor
• 1991 President George H.W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991, which strengthened laws on employment discrimination
• 1993 Dr. Joycelyn Elders becomes first Black Surgeon General

2000s

• 2001 General Colin Powell becomes first Black Secretary of State
• 2009 Barack Obama becomes first Black president

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Click the images below, or the following links, to expand the view or download a PDF: American Indian Heritage Month Timeline and American Indian Heritage Month Facts & Figures.

American Indian Heritage Month

1600s – 1700s

1614 Pocahontas marries English Jamestown colonist John Rolfe in Virginia, bringing temporary peace between English settlers and Algonquians
1758 First North American Indian reservation is established in New Jersey

1800s

1824 Bureau of Indian Affairs is established
1830 Indian Removal Act gives president the power to negotiate removal treaties for American Indians to move west of the Mississippi. About 4,000 Cherokee die as a result.
1834 Congress bans alcohol sales on American Indian lands
1851 Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 gathers American Indian tribes and places them on reservations
1871 Indian Appropriations Act of 1871 dissolves the status of Indian tribes as sovereign nations
1887 Congress passes Dawes Act, dividing reservation lands into privately owned parcels
1890 Roughly 300 Sioux are killed at Wounded Knee in last battle with federal forces

1900s

1912 Jim Thorpe, an athlete of the Sac and Fox tribe, wins two Olympic gold medals
1924 Indian Citizenship Act classifies American Indians as “citizens”
1929 Charles Curtis becomes the 31st vice president of the United States, the first person with significant acknowledged American Indian heritage to reach this level of the executive branch
1930 Apache Scout William Major becomes an officer of the 25th United States Infantry
1934 Congress passes Indian Reorganization Act to protect American Indians from loss of lands and provide funds for economic development. Also helps re-establish tribal governments
1963 Lyndon B. Johnson bestows the Presidential Medal of Freedom on its first American Indian recipient, Annie Dodge Wauneka of the Navajo Nation.
1968 Indian Civil Rights Act grants American Indians most protections under the Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment
1972 The American Indian Movement seizes the Bureau of Indian Affairs national headquarters and presents a 20-point list of demands
1973 American Indians occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
1978 American Indian Freedom of Religion Act allows “American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut and Native Hawaiian [people] … inherent right” to free exercise of their traditional religions
1980 Supreme Court orders U.S. government to pay $122 million to Sioux Indians for land illegally taken in South Dakota in 1877
1982 Supreme Court supports tax levied by the Jicarilla Apaches in New Mexico, allowing tribes to tax production of oil, natural gas and other minerals on reservations
1988 Congress passes Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, protecting American Indians’ gaming rights
1989 National Museum of the American Indian opens in Washington, D.C.
1990 First National American Indian Heritage month is celebrated (November)
1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act provides process for museums to return American Indian remains and artifacts to tribes upon request and protect their grave sites
1990 Native American Languages Act protects “the rights and freedom of Native Americans to use, practice and develop Native American languages”
1992 Foxwoods Casino opens on Pequot Reservation in Connecticut
1997 U.S. military allows American Indian soldiers to use peyote in their religious services

2000s

2000 The U.S. Mint issues a dollar coin with the image of Sacagawea, the Shosone woman famed for guiding the Lewis & Clark expedition through the western United States
2002 U.S. Navy Commander John Bennett Herrington, a Chickasaw citizen, visits the International Space Station, becoming the first American Indian astronaut in space
2005 National Collegiate Athletic Association bans use of “hostile and abusive” American Indian mascots in postseason tournaments
2009 Federal government settles dispute with American Indians, claiming they were swindled out of billions of dollars in oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties overseen by the U.S. Department of the Interior since 1887
2009 Congress passes and President Obama signs Native American Apology Resolution
2011 Judge clears New York state to tax cigarettes sold on American Indian reservations
2012 Senate approves the HEARTH Act that allows tribal governments to lease
tribal lands
Kevin Washburn of the Chickasaw nation is nominated by President Obama as the assistant secretary for Indian Affairs

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Click the images below, or the following links, to expand the view or download a PDF: Disability Employment Awareness Month Timeline and Disability Employment Awareness Month Fact & Figures

National Disability Employment Awareness Month

1700s

1751 Pennsylvania Hospital, with help of Benjamin Franklin, creates nation’s first special section to treat mental illness and “mental retardation”

1773 Virginia establishes first hospital solely for treatment of “idiots, lunatics and other people of unsound mind”

1776 Stephen Hopkins, a man with cerebral palsy, signs the Declaration of Independence. He is known for saying “my hands may tremble, my heart does not”

1800s

1805 Dr. Benjamin Rush, considered the father of American psychiatry, publishes Medical Inquiries and Observations, the first modern
attempt to explain mental disorders

1817 First school for deaf in U.S. opens in Connecticut

1829 Louis Braille publishes raised-point alphabet

1907 Indiana becomes the first state to enact a law to sterilize “confirmed idiots, imbeciles and rapists” in state institutions. The law is
enacted in 24 other states

1900s

1918 Congress passes first major rehabilitation program for soldiers because of the large number of World War I veterans returning with
disabilities

1921 The American Foundation for the Blind is founded

1924 Virginia passes law allowing sterilization (without consent) of individuals found to be “feebleminded, insane, depressed, mentally handicapped, epileptic and other”

1927 U.S. Supreme Court rules forced sterilization of people with disabilities is not a violation of constitutional rights

1935 Social Security Act establishes federal benefits for elderly people, funds to states for assistance to blind individuals and children with
disabilities

1939 Nazi euthanasia program is instituted to eliminate “life unworthy of life.” Up to 250,000 people with developmental or physical disabilities are killed

1945 National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week is created

1950 Veterans and people with disabilities begin development of national standards for “barrier-free” buildings

1956 Social Security amendments create disability insurance for workers with disabilities 50–64 1958 Social Security amendments extend disability benefits to dependents of workers with disabilities

1960 Rome hosts first Paralympics Games

1961 Making Buildings Accessible to and Usable by the Physically Handicapped is published. Forty-nine states adapt accessibility
legislation by 1973

1962 Ed Roberts, a young man with polio, fights rejection from the University of California, Berkeley and later helps establish the first Center for Independent Living

1964 The Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity or national origin, laying foundation for disability rights movement

1965 Medicare and Medicaid are established under Social Security Amendments

1970 Judy Heumann sues New York City Board of Education after application for a teaching license is denied because her wheelchair
is “a fire hazard”

1973 Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination in federal programs and services receiving federal funds

1974 The last “Ugly Law” is repealed in Chicago. They had allowed police to arrest people with “apparent” disabilities for no reason

1975 The Education of All Handicapped Children Act requires free public education in least-restrictive setting for children with disabilities

1976 Amendment to Higher Education Act of 1972 mandates services for college students with physical disabilities

1978 Frank Bowe publishes “Handicapping America,” considered the text for the disability-rights movement

1980 Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act gives the Department of Justice power to sue state or local institutions that violate
the rights of people held against their will

1984 Voting Accessibility for Elderly and Handicapped Act makes polling places accessible to people with disabilities

1990 President George Bush signs Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), requiring fair employment practices and protection from discrimination in employment, transportation, telecommunications, public accommodations and state and federal services

1992 United Nations creates International Day of Disabled Persons

2000s

2004 Army commissioned officer Tammy Duckworth loses lower legs after helicopter is hit by grenade, the first female double amputee from Iraq war. Receives Purple Heart and promotion to major in December; becomes disability activist 2006 First bill is passed that requires history of disability rights be taught to K–12 public-school students 2008 ADA Amendments Act grants broader protections for workers with disabilities

2009 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act protects employees/job applicants from genetic information discrimination

2010 President Barack Obama signs executive order calling for an additional 100,000 individuals with disabilities to be employed
by federal government over five years, and to increase retention of employees with disabilities, including employees injured on
the job

2011 New ADA rules come into effect for expanded accessibility requirements in recreational facilities and standards for mobility devices in public spaces, as well as clearly defined “service animal”

Sources: DiversityInc, disabilityhistoryweek.org, Temple University, whitehouse.gov, National Consortium on Leadership and Disability for Youth (NCLD/Y), Ability Magazine

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Q: I was looking for a list of “minority” CEOs. Who are the Black, Latino, Asian and women CEOs on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity?

A: There’s a dearth of Black, Latino, Asian and women CEOs running major companies—but the DiversityInc Top 50 companies have better stats:

• Eighteen percent of the DiversityInc Top 50 senior level are Black, Latino or Asian (up 33 percent from five years ago), which is 80 percent more than the Fortune 500.
• Twenty-four percent of the DiversityInc Top 50 senior level are women (up 9 percent from five years ago), which is 20 percent more than the Fortune 500.

There are six Black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, accounting for 1.2 percent of all Fortune 500 CEOs:  American Express and Merck & Co. are Nos. 14 and 16, respectively, in The 2012 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity. CEOs in the DiversityInc Top 50 total 4 percent Black.

• Kenneth C. Frazier, Merck & Co.
• Roger W. Ferguson Jr., TIAA-CREF
• Kenneth I. Chenault, American Express
• Don Thompson, McDonald’s
• Ursula M. Burns, Xerox Corporation
• Clarence Otis Jr., Darden Restaurants, Inc.

There are seven Asian CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, accounting for 1.4 percent of all Fortune 500 CEOs. MasterCard is No. 15 in the DiversityInc Top 50. CEOs in the DiversityInc Top 50 are 4 percent Asian.

• Indra K. Nooyi, PepsiCo
• Richard Hamada, Avnet
• Laura J. Sen, BJ’s Wholesale Club
• Kevin M. Murai, Synnex
• Ravi Saligram, OfficeMax
• Ajay Banga, MasterCard Worldwide
• Sanjay Mehrotra, SanDisk

There are six Latino CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, accounting for 1.2 percent of all Fortune 500 CEOs; CEOs in the DiversityInc Top 50 are 4 percent Latino.

• Antonio Perez, Eastman Kodak Co.
• George Paz, Express Scripts
• Josue Robles, United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
• Paul Raines, GameStop
• Robert E. Sanchez, Ryder System 407
• Joseph Molina, Molina Healthcare

There are 21 women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, accounting for 4.2 percent of all Fortune 500 CEOs; IBM and Kraft Foods are DiversityInc Top 50 companies (Nos. 17 and 7, respectively). CEOs in the DiversityInc Top 50 total 6 percent women.

• Meg Whitman, HP
• Virginia Rometty, IBM
• Patricia A. Woertz, Archer Daniels Midland
• Indra K. Nooyi, PepsiCo
• Irene B. Rosenfeld, Kraft Foods
• Marillyn A. Hewson, Lockheed Martin
• Ellen J. Kullman, DuPont
• Phebe Novakovic, General Dynamics
• Carol Meyrowitz, TJX
• Ursula M. Burns, Xerox
• Sheri S. McCoy, Avon Products
• Deanna M. Mulligan, Guardian Life Insurance
• Debra L. Reed, Sempra Energy
• Denise M. Morrison, Campbell Soup
• Ilene S. Gordon, Corn Products International
• Heather Bresch, Mylan
• Kathleen M. Mazzarella, Graybar Electric
• Mary Agnes (Maggie) Wilderotter, Frontier Communications
• Gracia C. Martore, Gannett
• Marissa Mayer, Yahoo
• Beth E. Mooney, KeyCorp

You can  access all our lists, such as DiversityInc’s Top 10 Companies for Blacks, at www.DiversityInc.com/top50.

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Click the images below to download a PDF, or click these links to expand the view: Hispanic Heritage Timeline and Hispanic Heritage Fact & Figures

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The string of victories achieved by LGBT-rights advocates in 2010 and 2011 continues. Within just the first two months of 2012, a California court struck down the Proposition 8 ban against same-sex marriage, Maryland has legalized same-sex marriage and legislation for same-sex marriage licenses is pending in Washington state. All of this follows a historic 2011 announcement by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that a new U.S. policy will allow for more specific action against countries that do not support LGBT equality.

Click the images below to download a PDF, or click these links to expand: LGBT Pride Timeline and LGBT Fact & Figures.

 LGBT PRIDE TIMELINE 

1828: The term “crime against nature” is coined in the U.S. Criminal Code

1867: “Father of the LGBT Movement” Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs is the first to speak out for gay rights

1892: First use of “bisexual” appears in Charles Gilbert Chaddock’s translation of Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis

1924: The Society for Human Rights, the first gay-rights organization in the United States, is founded. It is shut down by police within a few months

1955: The Daughters of Bilitis, the first national U.S. lesbian organization, is formed

1962: Illinois becomes the first state to decriminalize homosexual acts

1966: The National Planning Conference of Homophile Organizations is formed

1969: Stonewall riots in New York gain national attention for gay rights

1970: First Gay Liberation Day March is held in New York City; similar events are held in Los Angeles and San Francisco

1973: The American Psychiatric Association removes “homosexuality” definition as a mental disorder

1975: Minneapolis becomes the first city to protect transgender people by law from discrimination

1978: Rainbow flag is first used as symbol of gay pride

1979: First national gay-rights march is held in Washington, D.C.

1980: David McReynolds becomes the first openly LGBT person to run for president

1982: Wisconsin is the first state to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation

1983: Rep. Gerry Studds (Mass.) becomes the first openly gay member of Congress

1989: Denmark becomes the first country to legalize same-sex partnerships

1993: “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy allows gays/lesbians to serve in the U.S. military as long as they are closeted
Minnesota passes the first state-wide law prohibiting discrimination against transgender people

1996: Supreme Court says protections for gays/lesbians are civil rights guaranteed to all U.S. citizens

2000: Vermont becomes first state to legally recognize civil unions for gays and lesbians
President Bill Clinton names June Gay and Lesbian Pride Month

2003: Supreme Court rules sodomy laws unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas

2004: Massachusetts legalizes same-sex marriage

2005: Civil unions become legal in Connecticut

2006: Civil unions become legal in New Jersey

2007: DiversityInc requires domestic-partner benefits as a prerequisite to make The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list (read our Methodology)

2008: 

• Diego Sanchez is appointed top legislative assistant to Rep. Barney Frank, making him the first transgender staff member on Capitol Hill
• California’s State Supreme Court allows gay marriage; Proposition 8 then eliminates it
• Connecticut legalizes same-sex marriage

2009: 

• President Barack Obama signs a law extending existing federal hate-crime laws to include those committed on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity
• President Obama renames June as LGBT Pride Month
• Iowa and Vermont legalize same-sex marriage

2010:

• Federal court declares California’s Prop. 8 unconstitutional
• The District of Columbia and New Hampshire legalize same-sex marriage
• President Obama signs law to end “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy

2011: 

• The Respect for Marriage Act is filed in U.S. House of Representatives and Senate to repeal DOMA and end federal discrimination against legally married same-sex couples
• New York legalizes same-sex marriage
• President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announce policy for more specific actions against countries that do not move to create LGBT equality

2012:

• The Human Rights Campaign assigns more stringent qualifications for ranking as a best place to work for LGBT employees on its Corporate Equality Index, with an emphasis on benefits for transgender employees
• Proposition 8 in California is ruled unconstitutional, but ruling is expected to go to U.S. Supreme Court
• Maryland and Washington state legalize same-sex marriage
• Ellen DeGeneres is named jcpenney spokesperson; CEO Ron Johnson supports her—and her strong values—despite protests from group calling itself “One Million Moms”
• A Boston court ruled the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional

Sources: Catalyst, National Women’s History Project

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President Jimmy Carter signed a joint resolution in 1978 that declared May 4–10, 1979, as the first Asian Pacific American Heritage Week. This was later extended by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 to a month-long celebration. The month commemorates the arrival of the first Japanese immigrant, a fisherman named Nakanohama Manjiro, or “John Mung,” to the United States on May 7, 1843, and marks the transcontinental railroad’s completion on May 10, 1869.

Click the images below to download a PDF, or click these links to expand: Asian-American Heritage Timeline and Asian-American Fact & Figures.

 1700s–1800s:

1763 First recorded settlement of Filipinos in America in Louisiana

1843 First Japanese immigrants arrive in the United States

1847 Yale’s Yung Wing is the first Chinese person to graduate from a U.S. college

1848 Chinese people migrate to California during the Gold Rush

1854 California bars the entrance of Chinese people to the state

1858 People v. Hall rules that Chinese people cannot give testimony against whites

1865 Chinese workers are hired by the Central Pacific Railroad Company

1869 First transcontinental railroad is completed 1878 Ninth Circuit Court in California declares that Chinese people cannot receive natural citizenship

1879 Laws are passed in California against Chinese employment

1882 Chinese Exclusion Law is passed, which suspends immigration for 10 years

1898 The Philippines declares its independence. The U.S. annexes the Philippines and Hawaii

1898 Wong Kim Ark v. U.S. rules that Chinese people born in the United States are citizens

1900s:

1903 First group of Korean people arrives to work in Hawaii

1905 California Civil Code forbids marriage between Asians and whites

1906 San Francisco excludes Japanese, Korean and Chinese children from public schools

1907 Immigration from India begins

1907 President Theodore Roosevelt’s executive order prevents Japanese/Korean immigration

1922 Takao Ozawa v. U.S. rules that a Japanese person cannot be naturalized

1924 National Origins Act prohibits immigration of most Asians

1941 After the Pearl Harbor attack, Japanese on the Pacific Coast are interned in camps

1943 Congress repeals all Chinese exclusion laws and grants naturalization

1946 The Philippines becomes independent; citizenship is offered to those living in the United States

1946 Wing Ong becomes first Asian person elected to state office in Arizona House of Representatives

1947 President Harry Truman pardons Japanese Americans who resisted draft in internment camps

1949 U.S. severs ties with People’s Republic of China; 5,000 educated Chinese people are granted refugee status

1950 Korean War and second wave of Korean immigration begins

1956 Dalip Singh Saund becomes the first Asian-Indian person elected to Congress

1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th state

1959 Hiram Fong and Daniel K. Inouye become the first Asian-Pacific Americans elected to Congress

1962 Hawaii’s Inouye becomes a senator; Spark Matsunaga becomes a congressman

1964 Patsy Takemoto becomes the first Asian-American woman to serve in Congress

1975 Vietnam War ends; leads to large migration of Southeast Asians to the United States

1979 The first Asian Pacific American Heritage Week is celebrated

1979 Diplomatic relations resume between the People’s Republic of China and the United States

1989 President George H.W. Bush signs into law an entitlement program to pay each surviving Japanese-American internee $20,000

1997 Kalpana Chawla becomes the first Asian Indian astronaut in space

1997 Gary Locke becomes the first Asian-American governor of a mainland state (Washington)

2000 to Present Day:

2000 Norman Mineta becomes the first Asian-American person to hold a Cabinet post

2001 Elaine Chao is appointed secretary of labor

2006 First monument dedicated to Filipino soldiers who fought for the United States in World War II is unveiled

2007 Bobby Jindal becomes the first Indian-American person elected governor (Louisiana)

2009 President Barack Obama appoints the most Asian Americans to Cabinet-level positions (three)

2010 Apolo Anton Ohno becomes the most decorated American Winter Olympian, with eight medals

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The study finds that Latino and Black consumers rate the importance of a company’s presence in the community through corporate social responsibility and cause-related marketing programs as more significant in their buying decisions than do non-Latino whites.

About one-third of Latino and Black consumers almost always choose brands because they come from companies that support causes they believe in, compared with just 1 in 5 non-Latino whites, the study finds.

Latino and Black consumers also expect companies to champion their causes and stand up for issues that affect their communities to a greater degree.

According to the study, 79 percent of Latino respondents and 84 percent of Black respondents agreed with the statement “companies that make sincere efforts to be part of the Hispanic/African-American community deserve my loyalty.”

Additionally, 62 percent of Latino respondents and 68 percent of Black respondents agreed that very few brands and companies genuinely care about the state of their communities.

“The results present excellent opportunities to those businesses looking to increase their brand reputation and sales,” says Esther Novak, founder and CEO of VanguardComm, a public-relations firm with a specialty in corporate social responsibility and cause-related marketing. VanguardComm announced the study. “If you want to establish long-lasting relationships with Latino and Black consumers and businesses, you need to show that you understand and support their causes and community needs.”

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