Civil RIghts

By Row Row

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    Sigma Pi Phi, the first African-American Greek-letter organization, is founded by African-American men as a professional organization, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    Orlando, Florida hires its first black postman.

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    First meeting of the Niagara Movement, an interracial group to work for civil rights.

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    African-American men found Alpha Phi Alpha at Cornell University, the first intercollegiate fraternity for African-American me

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    Jack Johnson wins the World Heavyweight Title.

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    Planned first meeting of group which would become the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an interracial group devoted to civil rights.

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    The National Negro Committee meets and is formed; it will be the precursor to the NAACP.

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    The National Negro Committee chooses "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" as its organization name.

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    Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes formed; the next year it will merge with other groups to form the National Urban League.
    The NAACP begins publishing The Crisis.

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    Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. was founded at Indiana University.

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    Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., which is the first African-American greek-lettered organization founded at an HBCU (Howard University).

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    Delta Sigma Theta Sorrority, Inc., was founded at Howard Univeristy

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    The Birth of a Nation is released to film theaters. The NAACP protests in cities across the country, convincing some not to show the film.

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    In Guinn v. United States, the Supreme Court rules against grandfather clauses used to deny blacks the vote.

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    Professor Carter G. Woodson founds the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in Chicago.

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    Marcus Garvey arrives in the U.S.

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    Shuffle Along is the first major African American hit musical on Broadway.

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    In Moore v. Dempsey, the Supreme Court holds that mob-dominated trials violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
    Jean Toomer's novel Cane is published.

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    Scottsboro Boys arrested. The film Heavens Fall was made about the incident.

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    Five African-American men recruited and trained by African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker conduct a sit-in at the then-segregated Alexandria, Virginia, library and are arrested after being refused library cards.

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    Followers of Father Divine and the International Peace Mission Movement join with workers to protest racially unfair hiring practices by conducting "a kind of customers' nickel sit down strike" in a restaurant.