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the 15 amendment was adopted on march 30 1870. This amendment lets males vote regardless of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude.
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In the court case Strauder v West Virginia, the supreme court ruled that African Americans could not be excluded from juries. This court case was about a black man that was convicted of murder under an all white jury. He later appealed to the supreme court and the court reversed the result, ruling that no black shall be excluded from a jury.
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Mississippi passes a constitution that effectively excludes blacks from voting. This is done through poll taxes, literacy tests, and residency tests. This excluded blacks not only form voting, but from the entire political system in general.
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Since the civil war, more than 30,000 African American teachers were trained and put to work in the south. Due to this, most blacks were literate.
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The national negro committee chooses "National Association For The Advancement of Colored People" as its official organization name.
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The Negro National League (NNL) was a baseball league that included blacks.
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The great depression was a time period of roughly a decade where the economy in many countries crashed.
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Jessie Daniel Arms gets forty thousand women to sign a pledge against lynching. She also formed the Association of Southern Women Against Lynching.
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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is a leading United States civil rights organization.
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Henderson vs United States was a landmark court case in which a black passenger was not served dinner ina railroad dining car. This court case abolished segregation in dining cars.
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To kill a mockingbird is a revolutionary novel written by Harper Lee that shows the cold hard truth about segregation. The novel was an immediate success but brought controversy along with it.
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The Marin County courthouse incident was when 17 year old Jonathan Jackson attempted to negotiate the freedom of the Soledad Brothers by kidnapping Superior Court judge Harold Haley from the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California
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Douglas Wilder was the frist elected african american governor. He held office in Virginia from 1990 to 1994.
