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''jim crow''
During the Reconstruction period of 1865%u20131877 in the defeated South (the Confederacy), federal law protected the civil rights of "freedmen" %u2014 the liberated African slaves. In the 1870s, white Democrats gradually switched the power in southern states, sometimes as a result of elections in which paramilitary groups intimidated opponents,would attack blacks or preventing them from voting -
''Bessie's Birth''
Born September 3, 1891, in Raleigh, North Carolina. she was one out of ten and her parents were 'The Right Reverend Henry Beard and Nanny Logan. -
''Bessie's college life''
Bessie enrolled in columbia university in 1923, and became the second african american female dentist and was licensed in the state of New York. -
'' Emmett till''
Emmett till was born on july 25, 1941 in chicago, ill.he was an African American boy who was murdered at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, a small town in the state's Delta region. -
''The End of Jim Crow''
The Supreme Court in 1946, in Irene Morgan v. Virginia ruled segregation in interstate transportation to be unconstitutional, in an application of the commerce clause of the Constitution. -
'' Emmet Till's Death''
According to witnesses, they drove him to a weathered shed on a plantation in neighboring Sunflower County, where they beat and then shot him. A 70-pound cotton gin fan was tied to his neck with barbed wire to weigh down the body, which they dropped into the Tallahatchie River near Glendora, Mississippi, another small cotton town north of Money. -
'' Me & My Sister''
In 1992, Delany and her sister Sarah collaborated with Amy Hill Hearth on the book, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, which dealt with the trials and tribulations the sisters had faced during their century of life.
