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The Supreme Court limits the application of the Fourteenth Amendment to federal law.
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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
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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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The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Civil Rights Act of 1875
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Booker T. Washington delivers his famous or infamous Atlanta Compromise Speech at the Cotton States Exposition.
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Plessy v. Ferguson upheld Jim Crow laws in Louisiana.
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W.E.B. Dubois publishes his most famous work.
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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/
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Woodrow Wilson segregated the United States government between 1913 and 1920, setting policies that lasted for over forty years.
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Marcus Garvey founded the UNIA to promote Black Separatism.
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Every Southern State and many Northern Cities had Jim Crow laws in place.
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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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Forty African Americans were killed in a race riot in East St. Louis.
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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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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
