Unfinished Business

By jdyson
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    Unfinished Business

  • President Lincoln Elected

    President Lincoln Elected

  • Civil War starts

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Lincoln announces that all slaves will be free.

  • Civil War ends

    After it ends, reconstruction begins.

  • Reconstruction ends

  • Mass lynching of whites

    Many whites killed most likely due to them being nice to black people. This number sharply decreases when whites "learn their place."
  • Booker T. Washington forms the Tuskegee Institute

    Booker T. Washington forms the Tuskegee Institute

    Aimed to train blacks at the work they'd excel the most at: agriculture and vocational education.
  • Mass lynching of blacks

    Mass lynching of blacks

  • Atlanta Compromise Address

    Atlanta Compromise Address

    Brooker T. Washington gave an address telling blacks to learn vocational skills and to work hard to get their place in the economy.

  • Plessey v. Ferguson

    Supreme Court ruled separate educational facilities for blacks were constitutional if they were equal.
  • Theodore Roosevelt Elected

    Theodore Roosevelt Elected

  • W.E.B. DuBois publishes "The Soul of Black Folk"

    W.E.B. DuBois publishes "The Soul of Black Folk"

    Contrasted Washington's ideas about how black people should integrate into economic society.

  • Niagra Movement

    DuBois and 30 others drafted a series of demands essentially calling for an immediate end to all forms of discrimination.

  • NAACP forms

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People forms and fights for equality on the national front.