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The 15th Amendment was made and the African Americans got to vote. Hiram Revels was the first Affrican senator.
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Federal attempts to provide some basic civil rights for African American quickly erode.
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Spellman was the 1st African American college for black women. Fredrick Douglass founds The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
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This landmark Supreme Court decision holds that racial segreation is constitutional.
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Gravey established the Universal Negro Improvement Association, an influential black nationalist organization "to promote the spirit of race pride" and create a sense of worldwide unity among blacks.
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By the time of Harlem Renaissance in 1920s the literary, artistic, and intellectual movement fosters a new black cultural identity.
