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Virginia creates a segregated school system
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The Slaughterhouse Cases
The Supreme Court limits the application of the Fourteenth Amendment to federal law.
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Congress Passes the Civil Rights Act of 1875
This law prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, including inns, theaters, public conveyances on land or water, and "other places of public amusement." https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/CivilRightsAct1875.htm -
UNITED STATES V. CRUIKSHANK
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Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes was chosen to be the next president in a deal that required Hayes, among other things, to remove federal troops from the South, essentially ending Reconstruction.
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Civil Rights Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Civil Rights Act of 1875
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Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech
Booker T. Washington delivers his famous or infamous Atlanta Compromise Speech at the Cotton States Exposition.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson upheld Jim Crow laws in Louisiana.
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Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Dubois publishes his most famous work.
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NAACP Founded
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in New York to seek legal avenues in the fight for equal rights. http://www.naacp.org/oldest-and-boldest/ -
Election of Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson segregated the United States government between 1913 and 1920, setting policies that lasted for over forty years.
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UNIA Founded
Marcus Garvey founded the UNIA to promote Black Separatism.
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/the-principles-of-the-universal-negro-improvement-association/ -
1914
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D.W. Griffith Produces Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation that glorified the K.K.K. and helped lead to its rebirth, draws record crowds to movie theaters across the country.
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Race Riot in East St. Louis Ill.
Forty African Americans were killed in a race riot in East St. Louis.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/east-st-louis-race-riot-left-dozens-dead-devastating-community-on-the-rise-180963885/ -
Red Summer
Race riots occurred in large American cities like Chicago, St. Louis, and Baltimore as whites attacked African Americans who were demanding equality. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/chicago-race-riot-of-1919 -
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Ku Klux Klan members march in D.C.
On this date, 35,000 members of the K.K.K. marched openly in Washington D.C. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/17/the-day-30000-white-supremacists-in-kkk-robes-marched-in-the-nations-capital/?utm_term=.ea4965aa3a26
