Callie Skojec Civil Rights Timeline By callieskojec Period: 1890 to 1950 Civil Rights 1895 Booker T. Washington 1896 Plessy v Ferguson Oct 17, 1901 Equality Dinner at the White House 1902 Lynching 1902 WEB Dubois 1910 Johnson v Jefferies 1916 The Great Migration 1917 Morgan v Virginia 1919 Race Riots and Lynchings 1919 Chicago riots 1920 The KKK makes a comeback 1921 Marcus Garvey 1925 Harlem Renaissance 1925 Louis Armstrong's hot five 1931 Cotton Sharecroppers 1937 Scots boro brothers 1939 Eleanor Roosevelt lets Anderson sing from the Lincoln Memorial Steps 1944 Tuskegee Airmen 1947 Jackie Robinson 1948 Armed Forces are integrating