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13th Amendment Ratified
The 13th Amendment was far from being the beginning or the end of the fight for African American rights. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
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KKK founded
The Ku Klux Klan was founded on Christmas Eve in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee. The purpose of this fraternal order was to fight against Reconstruction and to maintain white supremacy.
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15th Amendment Ratified
The 15th Amendment states “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” This corrected a loophole that was present in the 14th Amendment which granted the freedmen American citizenship, providing them protections
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Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes would be president under certain conditions, one of the most important being the withdrawal of federal troops from the south. As the troops left the south, the era of Reconstruction ended. Photo source: https://blackandintellectual.com/blog/black-voting-rights-threat -
Booker T. Washington Delivers Atlanta Compromise Speech
Washington challenged the African American population to work diligently in order to impress the white population enough that they will be granted rights rather than to fight directly for these rights.
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W.E.B. Du Bois Challenges The Atlanta Compromise
“But so far as Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, North or South, does not rightly value the privilege and duty of voting, belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambition of our brighter minds,—so far as he, the South, or the Nation, does this,—we must unceasingly and firmly oppose them.”
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NAACP Founded
The march toward equality and civil rights organizes, gaining momentum and recognition.
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Birth of a Nation Premieres
The premiere of D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation resuscitated the Ku Klux Klan and awoke a new nationwide movement against African Americans.
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The Red Summer of 1919
The summer of 1919 came to be known as the “Red Summer,” due the number of deaths and race riots happening all over the nation..
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