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Segregation
For more than 200 years before the Civil War, slavery existed in the United States. But after the war things began to get worse for blacks. The south thought they needed to do something. The Southern legislatures, former confederates, passed laws known as the black codes, after the war, which severely limited the rights of blacks and segregated them from whites. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson Case
A incident occur on June 27, 1892 when a 1/8 African American man named Homer Plessy decided to test the segregated laws by sitting on a train in the section of whites only. He was soon arrested for this causing him to take his case to the supreme court, creating the Plessy vs. Ferguson case. Plessyś argument was denied in 1896. -
The Phoenix Riot
In the tiny South Carolina community of Phoenix in 1898, a white Republican candidate for Congress urged black men to fill out an affidavit, or sworn statement, if they were not permitted to vote. Ethridge picked up a piece of board, perhaps from the splintered affidavit box, and began to beat Tolbert about the head with it. -
Race Riots
In 1900, the same year James Weldon Johnson wrote “Lift Every Voice and Sing” to celebrate thirty-five years of black emancipation, there were two major race riots—one in New York City’s Tenderloin District, and the other in the city of New Orleans and in scattered locations in the Deep South—and at least 106 blacks were lynched.After that, their were many more riots that toke place all over the United States. -
Booker T. Washington
Born April 5,1856.
Died November 15, 1915.
He founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama (now known as Tuskegee University), which grew immensely and focused on training African Americans in agricultural pursuits. Washington’s philosophy and the “Tuskegee machine” won him widespread support among northern white philanthropists as well as acclaim among blacks. -
The New Orleans Riot
The Robert Charles Riots began when whites in New Orleans, Louisiana became infuriated after Robert Charles, an African-American, shot several white police officers on July 23, 1900. The race riots lasted over four days and claimed 28 casualties, including Charles. On the night of July 23, 1900,After some police harassment, Charles and Mora drew their guns and exchanged shots. Although neither was killed, Charles fled to his residence for refuge. -
Atlanta Riot
During the Atlanta Riot, whites mobs killed dozen of blacks, wounded others, and inflicted considerable property damage. Local newspapers are assault by black males on whites females were the catalyst for the riot. -
Springfield Riot
In mid-August 1908, the white population of Springfield, Illinois hastily reacted to reports that a white woman has been assaulted in her home by a black man.Soon afterwards another instance of an assault by a black man on a white woman was reported.Springfield Police took into custody an African American vagrant,Joe James,for one of the assaults.Another man, George Richardson,a local factory worker was arrested for the second assault.Both men were moved to a undisclosed location. -
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr.
Born on August 17, 1887
Died June 10, 1940
He was the founder on UNIA (United Negro Improvement Association) and he was the orator of the Pan-Africanism -
Chicago Riot
Between 1916 and 1919, the black population of Chicago doubled as migrants from the South moved north in search of jobs, political rights, and humane treatment. -
Tulsa Riot
Violence erupted in Tulsa,Oklahoma, on May 31,1921.The details of what followed vary from person to person,and accounts of an incident circulated among the city’s white community during the day and became more exaggerated with each telling.By the morning of June 1,some five hundred white men confronted about one thousand about one thousand black men across a set of railroad tracks.Approximately fifty armed black people defended themselves in a black church as white men advanced on them. -
Rosewood Riot
During the first week of January 1923, the small town of Rosewood, Florida, was destroyed.Its black resident were driven out or killed.On New Year's Day,Fannie Taylor,a married a white from a nearby town,claimed she had been assaulted and beaten by a black man.On January 4 a band of angry white men invaded Rosewood.Black people were prepared to defend themselves.The mob unleashed a hail of gunfire into the residence, killing Sarah Carrier.
