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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
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
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
Tennesse passes the first jim crow segration laws, which segragated state rail roads, at this time african americans started falling again. -
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
missippi enacts a poll tax that tries make blacks not be able to vote. -
1893
african american Daniel Hale Wiallams preforms the first open heart surgery. -
1895
Booker T Washington makes his contreversial Atlanta compromise speech, saying that blacks should focus on economic advancement. -
1896
Supreme court passes a law that says segragated places are legal -
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
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
Madame CJ walker starts a african american hair-care business in Denver. And becomes AMERICA'S first woman self made millionare -
1909
African American explorer Matthew Henson Reaches the North Pole. (first man known to reach it)
