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Chicago Race Riot of 1919
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1032.htmlWorld War I ended in November 1918, thousands of American servicemen, black and white, returned home from Europe and looked for jobs. White soldiers often sought to reclaim jobs they had held before going to war. Black soldiers, by contrast, expected their status as war veterans to qualify them for jobs they had previously been denied on the basis of race. In many cities, whites and blacks found themselves, unhappily, competing for the same jobs. -
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History of race relations in the US
This timeline will present the main events that shaped the history of race relations in the US. -
Nine black students are prevented from entering school
There were nine African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The nine students were initially prevented from entering this school because of their skin color, however Little Rock Central High School felt like it was their duty to break down the walls of segregation. -
The first freedom Ride leaves Washington DC for racially-segregated South
On May 4, 1961 seven blacks and six whites left Washington D.C on two public buses headed for the Deep South. They were setting an example of ending the segregation still faced by folks in the South -
Martin Luther King, Jr. Becomes Involved in the Albany Movement
It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights ear to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans. -
Martin Luther King "I have a dream"
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial during the march. -
President Johnson Signs Civil Rights Act of 1964 into Law
President Johnson introduced and sigend a bill guaranteeing equal treatment of every American regardless of race. -
Marthin Lurther King Jr. Leads second march from "Selma to Montgomery"
Dr. King led about 2,500 marchers out to the Selma to Montgomery for equal rights among African Americans. -
Riots following the assassination of Martin Lurther King Jr.
The Baltimore Riot of 1968 began two days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee leading to many injuries and deaths. -
Death of John Hope Franklin
He was particularly well-known for his efforts to fight for racial equality in the United States, for his work on the 1954 Supreme Court decision which overturned America’s legalised ‘separate but equal’ apartheid, and for his book From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, which sold over 3.5 million copies. -
Senator Larry Reid Apologizes for racial remarks
A new book about the campaign, "Game Change," by Time magazine reporter Mark Halperin and New York magazine writer John Heileman, said Reid, in private conservations, described Obama as "light-skinned" and with "no Negro dialect.
