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The first true professional team " The Cincinnati Red Stockings" was formed.
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2% of all 17 year olds graduated from high school and an even lower percent didn't go to college.
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Between 1870-1900 newspaper circulation soared from 2.6 to 15.1 million copies a day.
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Nearly two million women and girls, or one in every eight females over the age of 10, worked outside the home.
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One series of concerts helped make American music more inclusive by introducing African American religious folk songs called spirituals to white audiences.
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The Circus train made the annual visit of the circus an anticipated event all over America.
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The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison.
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Ragtime originated among black musicians in the South and Midwest in the 1880s.
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An estimated 1,200 African Americans were lynched between 1882 and 1892
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Southern states began using several tactics to deny the vote to blacks.
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Only 30 black women were studying in American colleges
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Alexander Crummell founded the American Negro Academy, which promoted scholarly publications about African American culture and history.
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Edwin Milton Royle said that the Vaudeville Theatre is an American invention and that it is like nothing else in the world. And the shows presented themselves as family entertainment.
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Laws were made that children ages 8 through 14 had to attend school.
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More than 2,000 students graduated from 34 African American Colleges.
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Du Bois founded a group called Niagara Movement whichis a group of african americans that called for full civil liberties
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The National Urban League was founded in 1911 which improved job opportunities and housing for blacks.
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The NAACP had 50 branches and 6,000 members and its magazine, Crisis, edited by Du Bois, reached more than 30,000 readers.
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Only one quarter of American homes had electricity, and the development of electric appliances had a limited effect on the average American home.
