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Theocracy: 2600 Years--From Zoroaster to Bush. Part Three
1950. Freeman magazine founded.
1950. Christian America magazine founded.
1950. Christian Economics magazine/journal founded.
1950. Christian Freedom Foundation founded.
1954. Brown v. Board of Education - desegregated public schools.
1955. National Review magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr.
1957. Roth v. United States - porography.
1958. JBS Founding meeting (1959 actual organization launched).
1959. Christian Broadcasting Network founded by Pat Robertson.
1962. Summit Ministries founded by David Noebel.
1962. Engel v. Vitale - school prayer.
1962. Christian Citizen founded.
1963. Rusher calls for conservative takeover of GOP.
1963. Abington Township School District v. Schempp - banned sponsored Bible reading.
1963. William Rusher urges challenge to GOP.
1964. Goldwater campaign for President.
1964. Schlafly helps build Goldwater campaign. Book: "A Choice Not An Echo".
1966. Republican conservatives score important successes in governorships, and other races. Of the 153 candidates endorsed by American Conservative Union--133 won.
1968. Wallace campaigns for President.
1969. MOTOREDE launched by JBS - main attack was on sex education, but also urged anti-abortion activism in a largely Protestant base.
1969. Kevin Phillips publishes book on new GOP majority.
1970. Religious Roundtable founded by Ed McAteer.
1971. Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education. Approved of Busing as a remedy for segregation.
1972. Wallace campaigns for President.
1972. Stop Era campaign by Schalfly.
1972. Eagle Forum founded by Phyllis Schlafly.
1973. Conservative Political Action Conferences started.
1973. Roe v. Wade - Supreme Court decision on abortion.
1973. Heritage Foundation founded by Weyrich and Joe Coors with money from Joe Coors and Richard Mellon Scaife.
1973. Roe v. Wade abortion decision handed down by Supreme Court.
1974 . School Textbook controversy Kanawha County WV.
1974. Kanawha County WV textbook xontroversy.
1974. Conservative Caucus founded by Howard Phillips.
1974. Third Century Publishers founded.
1974. Free Congress Foundation founded as Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress.
1975. Bright and Conlan start leadership trainings to politicize evangelicals.
1976. National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) founded by Terry Dolan.
1976. Weyrich, Phillips, Viguerrie, and Rusher go to American Independent Party convention to try to take it over, but fail, then look toward Republican Party.
1977. Christian School Action founded by Robert Billings (becomes National Christian Action.
1977. Focus on the Family founded by James Dobson.
1977. American Family Association formed by Don Wildmon.
1977. Anita Bryant leads anti-gay campaign in Florida.
1978. American Vision founded.
1978. IRS under President Jimmy Carter's commissioner Jerome Kurtz issues proposed regulations likely to strip non-profit tax status from hundreds of segregated White Christian academies.
1978. National Christian Action Coalition founded by Robert Billings (expanded from Christian School Action).
1979. Schaeffer and Koop make film series on abortion.
1979. New Right organizers meet to plan Moral Majority.
1979. Western Goals founded.
1979. Reverend Sileven of Faith Baptist Church in Nebraska was jailed after illegally operating an unlicensed school as a Christian academy.
1979. Moral Majority founded by Jerry Falwell.
1979. Christian Voice launched.
1979 . Concerned Women for America founded by Beverly LaHaye.
1980. Traditional Values Coalition founded by Sheldon.
1981. Council for National Policy founded.
1983. Bob Jones University V. United States.
1989. Christian Coalition founded by Pat Robertson.
1992. Lee v. Weisman - school prayer.
1993. Alliance Defense Fund founded by D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries, Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association, and James Dobson of Focus on the Family, and others.
2000. Santa Fe Independent School District v. DOE - school prayer case.
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