Civil Rights

  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington

    Famous educator and reformer. Most Influential spokesmen for Black Americans between 1895 to 1915
  • Dinner At the White House

    Dinner At the White House

    Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House for dinner making him the first African American to eat at the White House
  • W. E. B. Du Bois

    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Director of publicity and research for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • Lynchings from KKK

    Lynchings from KKK

    Members of the KKK lynched many African Americans
  • Map of Riots and Lynchings

    Map of Riots and Lynchings

    Lynching and riots related to race
  • Jack Dempsey v. Jess Willard

    Jack Dempsey v. Jess Willard

    Jack Dempsey defeats the boxing champion Jess Willard
  • 1919 Chicago Riot

    1919 Chicago Riot

    7 day Riot of arson, shootings, and beatings
  • KKK

    KKK

    Active racist group in early to mid 1900s
  • Marcus Mosiah Garvey

    Marcus Mosiah Garvey

    Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
  • Louis Armstrong

    Louis Armstrong

    Famous African American jazz artist
  • Scottsboro Boys

    Scottsboro Boys

    9 African American boys accused of raping two white women
  • Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson

    Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson

    Eleanor Roosevelt invited Marian Anderson to perform at the White House
  • Tuskegee Airmen

    Tuskegee Airmen

    African American pilots who fought in WWII
  • Irene Morgan

    Irene Morgan

    Irene Morgan Refuses to give up her bus seat or a white person
  • Truman Calls for Racial Inequalities Study

    Truman Calls for Racial Inequalities Study

    Truman Calls for an investigation into racial inequalities in America