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Timeline

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CAL Events	Date	U.S. and World Events
	1970	U.S. foreign-born population decreases slightly to 9.6 million Title VI of the Civil Rights Act
World languages surve	1971	Serna v. Portales
ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics (1974-2003)	1974	Equal Educational Opportunities Act Lau v. Nichols decision
Refugee Project Work	1975	Vietnam War ends; 150,000 refugees from southeast Asia come to the United States
Work in San Francisco school district in response to Lau v. Nichols decision Survey of Language Use and Language Teaching in Eastern Africa	1976
National Indochinese Clearinghouse and Technical Assistance Center (NICTAC) opens at CAL to help refugees and refugee service providers	1977	American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) established
Language in Education series launched	1978	Ann Arbor School District lawsuit regarding African American Vernacular English (AAVE)
Response to Ann Arbor African American Vernacular English	1979

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