Plessy to NAACP - Band der Zeit

13th Amendment

Plessy v. Fergunson

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Segregation, the Court said, was not discrimination.

NAACP

Brown Board of Education

19th Amendment

W. E. B. DU BOIS helped to establish the NAACP and entered into the forefront of the early U.S., civil rights movement.

JIM CROW LAWS

African Americans Fight legal Discriminations

Niagara Falls Movement

Trotter led a delegation of blacks to meet with the president Woodrow Wilson, on November 12, 1914 to discuss the surge of segregation. Trotter began with a reference to their 1913 meeting and to the petition he had presented, containing 20,000 signatures “from thirty-eight states protesting against the segregation of employees of the national government.”

Normal and Industrial Institution

Dept Peonage

Booker T. Washington delivers a speech calling for a moderate approach to race relations. W.E.B. Du Bois attacked Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise speech accusing him of abandoning the fight for black political rights and accepting segregation in exchange for deceptive economic gains

The Crisis, the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois

Guinn v. United States

During WWI the newly-formed NAACP led the fight against discrimination and segregation and to prevent mistreatment of African Americans in the military

The East St. Louis riot May 1917 was an outbreak of labor and race-related violence in the city of East St. Louis, Illinois

Member Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

Martin Luther King became involved in protests against the incident involving Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.

14th Amendment

Freedmen's Bureau

Civil Rights Act of 1866, which gave African Americans citizenship and forbade states from passing discriminatory laws- Black Codes- that severely restricted African Americans' lives.

Mississippi and South Carolina had first enacted black codes in 1865, and other Southern states had rapidly followed suit.

Enforcement Act

Reconstruction Act

Civil Rights Act

15th Amendment (Ratified)

African Americans, who made up the largest group of Southern Republicans gained voting rights as a result of the Fifteen Amendment. During Reconstruction, African American men registered to vote for the first time; nine out of ten of them supported the Republican Party.

Hiram Revels

Sharecropping System

Tenant Farming System

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Slaughterhouse cases

U.S. v. Cruikshank

Homestead Act

Exodusters- African Americans who moved from the post- Reconstruction South to Kansas.

Chinese Exclusion Act

Gentlemen's Agreement

Susan B. Anthony

In 1869 Anthony and Elizabeth Candy Stanton had founded the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA), which united with another group in 1890 to become the National American Women Suffrage Association, or NAWSA.