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At this point in time the practice of lynching african americans to intimidate them had become a norm. The deep south had around 2,500 lynching just between 1886 up to this point.
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President Mckinley is assassinated on september 14th 1901 a week after he had been shot in buffalo, making him the third president to be assasinated.
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This year streetcars were segregated discriminating african americans. After this was created since it was fairly new people were just getting use the law or didn’t really know yet and this resulted in the arrest of Mary Custis Lee.
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W.E.B. Du Bois published The Souls of Black Folk, created to show the color boundaries and what it is like to be a african american in the current time period.
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This year marked the opening of daytona literacy and industrial school for colored girls in florida by Mary Mcleod, allowing colored people a larger field in education.
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The niagara movement is formed led by W.E.B. Du Bois and was unable to take place on the american side of the niagara falls because of prejudice hotel managers resulting them to move to the canadian side of the falls.
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A race riot took place in atlanta that resulted in the death of 21 people. White mobs formed and assaulted blacks during this riot and caused a considerable amount of property damage and was parked by reports in the local newspaper article.
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Jack Johnson becomes the first african american heavyweight champion making history.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded and quickly became the United States leading Civil Rights activist group.
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National Urban League was formed in New York City. It was an organization created in order to help African American residents settle into urban life.
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The ambassador of Mexico protests the mistreatment of mexicans in the U.S., bringing up the amount of lynchings and murders.
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The first woman was elected to Congress was Jeannette Rankin. This was a major increase in womans rights in America.
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During this year the Jones Act was produced giving puerto ricans full citizenship and allows them to travel freely to the united states.
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The 19th Amendment was passed. This gave the right to citizens in the United States to vote regardless of gender, Male and female were finally treated equally and women could no longer be denied to vote.
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Race riot in Oklahoma resulted in the death of 21 whites and 60 blacks, causing panic across the nation.
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Supreme court denies naturalization right from Japanese residents in the United States keeping citizenship away from them. If a United States citizen were to marry an ‘Alien’ their citizenship to the United States would then be revoked.
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Lynchings are going down but still this year contained at least 23 known lynchings.
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Congress passed the Indian Citizen Act of 1924, granting American citizenship to Native Americans. The Immigration Act bars any “ aliens ineligible to citizenship” from entering the U.S. This also granted Native Americans more freedom.
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The League of United Latin American Citizens is founded to help discrimination. educate Chicanos, killings and other abuses.
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The Discrimination against the Japanese in the U.S led to the formation of the Japanese American Citizenship League.
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Marian Anderson barred from singing in washington D.C’s constitution hall and ended up singing to 75,000 people in front of the lincoln memorial, giving a huge turning point in the fight for civil rights amung african americans.
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An executive order is issued by President Roosevelt to ban discrimination against minorities.
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110,000 Japanese Americans are placed in barbed wire encircled “relocation camps” by the U.S Government. Anyone seeking to leave are to be shot by the guards.
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To reward China on becoming an ally in the war against Germany and Japan, Congress repeals all previous Asian Exclusion Acts .
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Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball.
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President truman signs the executive order #9981 during this year which states that all people regardless of color or gender should be treated equal.
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Tuskegee Institute recorded all lynchings for the past 71 years and for the first time there was no recorded lynchings in this year.
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During this time the segregation of public schools is declared unconstitutional by the board of education saying that separate learning facilities for blacks and whites are not right.
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During this year on december 1st the well known african american woman by the name of Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on the bus which at the time defied the southern custom and resulted in her arrest. The response was a boycott that lasts for a year until the busses got un segregated.
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During this year and the months jan-feb Dr. King and other figures come together to from the southern christian leadership council where Dr. King is appointed as president. This group became a major part of the civil rights movement and was known for the non violent protests.
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Alaska and Hawaii become states. Hiram Fong and Daniel Inouye are elected to represent Hawaii in Congress, they are the first two asians to serve in that body.
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A non violent protest was brought up during this year when four students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College decided to sit at a counter that was for whites in a restaurant. Although they were denied service they were still allowed to stay at the counter. This event triggered many different non violent protests.
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During this year students during the summer decided to try out new laws around the state that prohibit segregation by bus and by rail. This resulted in the assault of those students known as the freedom riders.
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The United Farm Workers Union organizes to win bargaining for Mexican Americans. James Meredith becomes the first African American admitted to The University of Mississippi.
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The Supreme Court ruled that prohibiting interracial marriage was unconstitutional. However, after this tuling 16 states still outlawd interracial marriage but were later forced to change the laws.
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A Greenwich Village Bar known as Stonewall Inn, was raided by police on June 27, resulting in two nights of rioting and was the symbolic beginning of the Gay Rights movement. This bar catered to homosexuals.
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Section 504 of the Vocation Rehabilitation Act is passed by congress barring the discrimination of disabled people with the use of federal funds.
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Most states’ restrictive abortion laws were struck down on Jan. 22, by The Supreme Court, in Roe vs. Wade. This greatly expanded the right to legal abortion.
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Houston holds the First National Women’s Conference. This convention was held in November from the 18 to 21. This was the first meeting of its mind since the Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca falls.
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On October 14 over 100,000 people are drawn to Washington to participate in the first Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Movement.
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A newsreport about the aids epidemic is published. Mostly in New York and San Francisco, 41 cases of homosexual men were diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that is rapidly fatal. It has been reported that 8 victims have died within 24 months after being diagnosed.
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It is ruled that the states are allowed to outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults, this was ruled by the Supreme Court.
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Marcelite Jordan Harris is the first African American woman brigadier general in the U.S. Army and the first woman to command a male battalion.
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Rodney King, a taxi cab driver, was pulled over by police for speeding. He did not comply due to being under the influence, which he was then shot twice with a taser and beaten for 81 seconds with police batons. The three officers involved were charged with assualt and excessive froce.
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The Supreme Court ruled stating that universities can use race to determine who they let in their schools, this provides schools with data on creating more diversity.
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This act made it illegal to discriminate someone based on gender, race physical features, sexual orientation, or age. This act helped the workplace be a more friendly enviroment.
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Lillian Elaine Fishbourne is the first black woman admiral in the U.S. Navy. Giving African Americans growth amungust ranks in America's military.
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Barack Obama was appoinited the f irst African American president in the United States making a big breakthrough for all African Americans in America.
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Arizona passed a very strong immigration law to prevent illegal immigrants from entering neighborhoods. This act also has raised alot of controversy amungst the country.
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This allowed a civil right to be acessed by everyone, rather than just man and woman. Also caused an outrage amungust the states.
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