Reconstruction Jim Crow

  • 1872

    1872

    6 years after the civil rights movement was passed history was broke.Down in louisiana their first black governer was elected into the house of representives.
  • 1873

    1873

    armed african american forces sourrond the county seat in colflax Lousisana fearing whites will illegally overthrow the republican goverment. Over 300 African Americans were killed in this colax massacere.
  • 1879

    1879

    after several years thousands of african americans got fed up with the exploitation of oppression and decided to move from the south to the west, the movement was led by benjamin pop singleton.
  • 1881

    1881

    Tennesse passes the first jim crow segration laws, which segragated state rail roads, at this time african americans started falling again.
  • 1886

    1886

    In 1886 during the civil rights movement, congress passed the civil rights act, which means this is the time that blacks start having the same rights as whites.
  • 1890

    1890

    missippi enacts a poll tax that tries make blacks not be able to vote.
  • 1893

    1893

    african american Daniel Hale Wiallams preforms the first open heart surgery.
  • 1895

    1895

    Booker T Washington makes his contreversial Atlanta compromise speech, saying that blacks should focus on economic advancement.
  • 1896

    1896

    Supreme court passes a law that says segragated places are legal
  • 1896

    1896

    Paul Lawerence Dumbar, known as the poet of the negro race,publishes lyris of a lowly life which contains some of his best and most famous work.
  • 1898

    1898

    Lousisiana tries to disenfranchaise their african americans by passing a grandfather clause. limiting the right to vote for anyones grandfather or grandmother was qualified on January 1 1867.
  • 1903

    1903

    Madame CJ walker starts a african american hair-care business in Denver. And becomes AMERICA'S first woman self made millionare
  • 1909

    1909

    African American explorer Matthew Henson Reaches the North Pole. (first man known to reach it)