Also Honorable Mentions. Plessy v. Ferguson, the Rodney King video and subsequent acquittal of the police officers involved, and the O.J. Verdict.

If you hadn't placed them in chronological order, then Barack Obama's election would have come first in consequence. The reverberations of that election are as profound as were the reverberations of the end of Reconstruction.

Thank you for your customary, and unflinching, deep thinking.