Kennedy Dennison Civil Rights Timeline By 23krdennison Period: 1865 to 1930 End of slavery from 13th Amendment to racism becoming a problem again leading to the civil rights movement 1890 Plessy V. Ferguston was arrested 1900 Booker T. Washington organized the National Negro Business League 1901 Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington have dinner and talk equality 1908 W.E.B Du Bois was a founder of NAACP 1912 Multiple people were lynched in Georgia Period: 1914 to 1930 The Great Migration 1919 Race Riots and Lynchings 1919 Jack Johnson and James Jeffries wrestle 1919 - 1920 1919 Riots Sweep Chicago 1920 People of the late 1920s 1922 KKK arrested many men during a night time raid 1924 Marcus Garvey organized first important Black American movement 1925 Armstrong recording with the Hot Five 1936 The Scottsboro Boys Trial 1936 -37 1939 Springman medal to Marian Anderson 1943 Tuskegee Airmen deploy overseas 1944 Morgan vs. Virginia Court Case 1946 Truman shaking hands with Edward Williams during a walk 1947 Jackie Robinson became first Black baseball player