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Famous educator and reformer. Most Influential spokesmen for Black Americans between 1895 to 1915 -
Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House for dinner making him the first African American to eat at the White House -
Director of publicity and research for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -
Members of the KKK lynched many African Americans -
Lynching and riots related to race -
Jack Dempsey defeats the boxing champion Jess Willard -
7 day Riot of arson, shootings, and beatings -
Active racist group in early to mid 1900s -
Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) -
Famous African American jazz artist -
9 African American boys accused of raping two white women -
Eleanor Roosevelt invited Marian Anderson to perform at the White House -
African American pilots who fought in WWII -
Irene Morgan Refuses to give up her bus seat or a white person -
Truman Calls for an investigation into racial inequalities in America