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Jim Crow Laws
The History of Jim Crow Tennessee become the first to pass a law for the segregation of race within the railroad industry. many Soutthern states soon followed. -
Anti-Lynching
Ida B. Wells Memorial FundationIda B. Wells-Barnett publishes her anti-lynching pamphlet "The Red Record",in reaction to three of her friends being lynched due to a business rivalry with a white-owned company three years earlier. -
NAACP
NAACPThe National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded in New York City. Director of publication is W.EB. Du Bois. -
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Ku Klux Klan
Membership in the Ku Klux Klan, white supremacist group, resurged in 1915 and continued to grow to their 40,000-man march on Washington DC on Auguts 8. 1925. -
Race Riots
Race RiotsRace riots throughout the country occurred as an after math to World War II as troops returned home. One of the worst riots was in Chicago where 38 people were killed and 537 were injured. -
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Civil Rights Movement
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Brown vs. The Board of Education
The Supreme court rules against the former idea of "separate but equal" used in the decision for Plessy vs. Ferguson. Brown vs. The Board of Education ordered the desegregation of all public schools. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks biographyRosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus to give up her seat to a white person in Alabama. She is arrested. -
Civil Rights March on Washington
March on Washington 1963200,000 people march to a peaceful gathering at the National Mall. Martin Luther King delivers his "i have a dream" speech. -
Civil Rights Act
Congress passes the Civil Rights Act and it is signed into force by President Johnson. The law prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
