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Du Bois Niagara Movement
The focus of Du Bois' Niagara Movement began in 1905, the NAACP's stated goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, which promised an end to slavery, the equal protection of the law, and universal adult male suffrage. Du Bois founded The Crisis magazine as the voice for civil rights. -
NAACP Formed
Founded in 1909 the NAACP has became the base of all other civil rights organizations. The NAACP's principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice. -
NAACP Expands
NAACP had such an impact on the african american population that it started to grow enough to where they felt that they could succeed in other areas of the country. They had to establish many other organizations in order for the company to continue success. -
KKK growing in numbers of members
AT this point in time the Ku Klux Klan has grown to above 5 million members that are apart of discrimination of colored people.Membership of the Ku Klux Klan rose to around 5 million during the 1920's. Many poor farmers and labourers thought that their wages would increase if they drove the Black people out of their state. Black people were cheaper to employ as they were forced to work for lower wages than white people. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression in the 1930s depleted the Klan’s membership ranks, and the organization temporarily disbanded it in 1944.There were many ways in which the Depression made life harderon the colored people.Blacks faced unemployment rates of up to 50% and more. Most of the Blacks were pushed out of the odd jobs that they had before the depression. The whites continued to dominate the economy. -
NRA
National Recovery Act (NRA) of 1933 was soon referred to by Blacks as the Negro Removal Act. Although its stated goal was nondiscriminatory hiring and an equal minimum wage for whites and Blacks, NRA public works projects rarely employed Blacks and maintained racist wage differentials when they did.Blacks were either excluded or forced to organize in separate unions, such as the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Black workers who tried to organize often found themselves a target of lynch mob. -
Brown v Board of educatiion
The Court’s decision to overturn the rulings of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which had allowed for “separate but equal” public facilities, including public schools in the United States. Declaring that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” the Brown v. Board decision helped break the back of state-sponsored segregation, and provided a spark to the American civil rights movement. That decision was used to justify segregating all public facilities, including schools. -
Rosa Parks Arrest
In December 1955, a Montgomery activist named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus. She was later arrested for her actions.Her arrest sparked a 13-month boycott of the city’s buses by its black citizens, which only ended when the bus companies stopped discriminating against African American passengers. Acts of “nonviolent resistance” like the boycott helped shape the civil rights movement of the next decade. -
MLK Jr. " I Have A Dream"
On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. organized a now historic march to Washington to show the importance of solving the United States racial problems. About 250,000 people gathered and listened to his "I have a dream speech." : "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character". -
Racism in the 80s
Reagan ignored most of the issues and interests of African Americans. On top of this, he appointed conservative judges to a number of federal courts; these judges often ended and shut down programs that were originally designated to make amends for past discrimination against minoritieThe lack of these programs led to an increase in racial violence ags.ainst African Americans and gave them the impression that the nation was only becoming more separate and unequal. -
Racism in classrooms
Public school students of color get more punishment and less access to veteran teachers than their white peers. Talks about racism in the classrooms can be extremely difficult and a very sensitive topic to most.Race shouldn’t affect your education at all. Everybody should be given a chance to succeed just as much as the white person next to them. Colored students are three times as likely to get suspended or expelled for doing something they wouldn't even be considered major. -
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