American Decades

Important Events in Law and Justice, 1910–1919

On January 3, Supreme Court Justice Horace H. Lurton is sworn in.
On March 28, David J. Brewer, associate justice of the Supreme Court, dies.
On May 1, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded. Six months later it begins to publish the journal, The Crisis, under the editorship of W.E.B. Du Bois.
On May 2, Charles Evans Hughes, former governor of New York, is nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. He serves on the High Court until 1916 when he is chosen to be the Republican Party's presidential candidate.
On October 1, an explosion destroys a portion of the Los Angeles Times building, killing twenty-one people. The publisher of the newspaper blames labor radicals who have been attempting to unionize the newspaper's employees. Union organizers James and John McNamara are arrested and charged with the crime.
On October 10,...

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