1914 |
(June 28) Serb nationalist assassinates Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
World War I breaks out in Europe
(July 25) Cecil F. Poole born |
1915 |
Ku Klux Klan reorganizes |
1917 |
United States officially declares war on Germany |
1918 |
Poole family migrates from Birmingham, Alabama, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
1927 |
Aviator Charles Lindbergh flies The Spirit of St. Louis nonstop from New York to Paris |
1932 |
Poole enters the University of Michigan |
1936 |
Poole earns B.A. from the University of Michigan |
1938 |
Poole earns law degree from the University of Michigan |
1939 |
Poole earns master's degree in law from Harvard University
World War II begins |
1940 |
Poole passes the Pennsylvania bar |
1941 |
Poole joins the National Labor Relations Board
United States enters World War II |
1942 |
Poole is drafted into the United States Army
Poole marries Charlotte Crump |
1945 |
World War II ends |
1946 |
Poole is honorably discharged from the army; he and Charlotte relocate to San Francisco; Poole gets a job with the Office of Price Administration |
1947 |
Gayle Alexandra Poole is born |
1949 |
Poole goes to work as an assistant district attorney in the office of District Attorney Edmund G. "Pat" Brown |
1950 |
Brown is elected attorney general of California |
1952 |
Patricia Mary Poole is born |
1954 |
United States Supreme Court rules in Brown v. Board of Education that "separate but equal" education is unconstitutional |
1955 |
Rosa Parks is arrested on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Montgomery bus boycott follows |
1958 |
Edmund "Pat" Brown is elected governor of California; appoints Poole his extradition and clemency secretary |
1960 |
(May 2) Caryl Chessman is executed |
1961 |
(June 29) Poole is appointed by President John F. Kennedy as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California--first black U.S. attorney in the continental United States |
1963 |
(November 22) President John F. Kennedy is assassinated |
1964 |
Federal Civil Rights Act is passed
(December) Poole is denied a seat on the NAACP Board of Directors |
1965 |
Federal Voting Rights Act is passed
President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall the first black solicitor general of the United States |
1966
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Poole joins the American Bar Association
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense is formed |
1967 |
President Johnson appoints Thurgood Marshall the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
Anti-draft and anti-war demonstrations occur across the country |
1968 |
(April) Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated
(June) Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated
Poole is nominated to U.S. District Court for Northern California by President Lyndon B. Johnson; Senate fails to confirm and nomination is withdrawn
Richard M. Nixon is elected president |
1969 |
Poole returns to private law practice |
1972 |
President Nixon resigns; Vice President Gerald R. Ford assumes the presidency |
1976 |
President Ford appoints Poole to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California |
1979 |
President Jimmy Carter appoints Poole to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
1991 |
Charlotte Crump Poole dies |
1996 |
(January 15) Poole assumes senior judge status |
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1997
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(November 12) Cecil F. Poole dies of complications from pneumonia after a long illness |
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2000
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(May 22) San Francisco Board of Supervisors declares 90 Cedro Avenue the Joseph Leonard/Cecil F. Poole House, city landmark number 213 |
