1927
Colorado, Illinois, and New Jersey, in assorted legislation and judicial verdicts, lessen segregation in schools, but segregation statutes are strengthened in southern states.
1927
The Urban League organizes boycotts of Chicago stores that refuse to hire blacks. In 1929, boycotts will be started in several other midwestern cities.
1927
Marcus Garvey is released from prison in Atlanta and deported to the British West Indies.
1927
The Harlem Globetrotters basketball team is founded in New York City. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Ethel Waters star on Broadway in Blackbirds.
1927
Nonunion black labor is brought from the South to the coal fields of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, weakening the position of the United Mine Workers. Racial strife ensues as hysterical rumors of rape and miscegenation spread through white mining communities.
1927
The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Texas law which bars blacks from voting in party primaries. Texas then enacts a law allowing local committees to determine voter qualifications.
1927
Trotsky is stripped of all posts and expelled from the Communist Party.
1927
Lev Kamenev loses his offices and is expelled from the party. He will later be readmitted, and expelled twice again.
1927
Four synagogues are wrecked during anti-Jewish riots at Oradea in Romania. Prayer houses are plundered at Jassy, Targu Ocna and Cluj. (Atlas)
1927
German filmmaker Fritz Lang directs the futuristic film Metropolis.
1927
The KWG founds a KWI of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics in Berlin-Dahlem and nominates Professor E. Fischer as its director. (Science)
1927
The Iron Guard fascist organization is founded in Romania.
1927
Television is first publicly broadcast in Great Britain.
1927 January 9
British-born Germanophile political philosopher, Houston Stewart Chamberlain dies at Bayreuth, Germany. He went to his death still believing in the racial and cultural superiority of the "Aryan Race," especially after a personal meeting with Hitler shortly before his death.
1927 February
Johann Walthari Wölfl, Prior of Werfenstein,
begins the publication the third Ostara series with an introductory issue by
himself. Between 1927 and 1931, most of a hundred projected issues are published
with illustrated covers in a more luxurious format than before the war. (Roots)
1927 February 1
Count Franz Friedrich von Hochberg writes a letter
to Johann Walthari Wölfl which he publishes in the first issue of the new
Ostara series. (Roots)
1927 February 11
Hitler and Goebbels speak at Pharus Hall in Berlin.
1927 March
Joseph Berchtold resigns as head of the SS, and his
deputy, Erhard Heiden, takes over its leadership. Heiden decides that since the
number of SS members is limited to only 10% of the SA, there is no way they can
outshout them. He therefore issues an order stating: "The SS will never
take part at meetings. SS men will attend discussions for the purpose of
instruction only. The SS man and SS commander will remain silent and never
become involved in matters concerning party or SA members which do not concern
him." Under Heiden, the SS soon adopts the slogan: "The aristocracy
keeps its mouth shut." This unique attitude puzzles both the Nazi Party
bosses and the SA leaders and establishes a mysterious aura around the SS that
will remain intact throughout the years of the Third Reich. (Secrets)
1927 April 7
The first successful long-distance demonstration of
television broadcasts an image of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover.
1927 April 18
A Chinese national government is established in Nanking by the Kuomintang.
1927 May 20
Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain.
1927 May 21
Charles Lindbergh flies solo nonstop from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours.
1927 May 26
Diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Russia are temporarily disrupted because of friction caused by Communist agitation, a clear violation of treaty agreements.
1927 June 13
Aviation hero Charles Lindbergh is honored with a huge ticker-tape parade in New York City.
1927 June 24
The Legion of the Archangel Michael is founded in Romania.
