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At a Women's Rights Convention in 1866, the poet novelist, essayist and political activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper pointed out that she wants a nation where no one is judged by their skin color.
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Vigilante groups arose, like The Ku Klux Klan, which was established in 1866 for the purpose of suppressing and terrorizing African Americans who believed in achieving equality.
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In 1867, Congress passed The Reconstruction
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Another important development in this period was the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, built by exploited Asians and blacks.
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Both blacks and whites not to go against the structure of
society. Two years after the opening of Tuskegee/ the Supreme
Court overturned the Civil Rights Act of 1875, thus upholding
the Jim Crow laws of the South. Public transportation, toilets,
public buildings, restaurants, schools throughout the South became segregated. Black men were disenfranchised. -
Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party lost in 1877 to the Democratic Party, which in those days was traditionally very much on the side of the southern seperatists.
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The establishment of The Tuskegee Institute by Booker T. Washington, a black educator, in 1881
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In 1896, the
Supreme Court decision called Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that
segregation was not unconstitutional as long as equal facilities
were available. This "separate but equal" policy dominated the
South and to a lesser degree the North until the middle of the
20th century, when the Civil Rights Movement changed everything for Adrican Americans. -
Women got the right to vote
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The Wall Street Crash in 1929 did much to bring down The Harlem Renaissance period