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colored person elected for office!
John Mercer Langston is one of the first African Americans elected to public office when elected as a town clerk in Ohio. -
civil rights act of 1866
this act showed that everyone was equally protected no matter what. This mainly was for the african americans at the time to protect them. -
fifteenth amendment
This amendment stated that any male falling under any race is able to vote. -
The Exodusters
Many african americans were against segregation and soon a large number of african americans moved to Kansas. These people were known as the "Exodusters" -
Plessy v. Ferguson
this was where the term seperate but equal came from. -
jobs and training
30,000 african american teachers in this time period were given training and were put to work. -
woodrow wilson
The new president in office orders segregation laws requiring seperate facilities after fifty years of mixed facilities. -
Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall
Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall become the two first colored people in the NFL. -
end lynching
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching is created by Jessie Daniel Ames to end lynching even though she is a white woman. 40,000 people sighn to end it. -
second migration
more than five million africans leave the south again for a better education, jobs, and the ability to vote. -
african surgeon
Doctor Charles R. Drew becomes the first african american surgeon whos acheivments are recognized when he is an examiner on the American Board of Surgery. -
In Smith vs. Allwright
this case decides that an all white deomcratic party in texas was considered unconstitutional.
