Civil Rights

By LANDINBUSH

  • Niagara Movement

    served as a forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the civil rights movement.

  • Grouth of the Niagara Movement

    Movement had grown to 170 members in 34 States.

  • End of the Niagara Movement

    Opening the door for another movement that allowed women, especially after the riots in Springfield, Illinois

  • NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

    New York City by an interracial group of activists, partially in response to the 1908 Springfield race riot in Illinois.

  • NAACP starts the Publication The Crisis

    This became the leading publication for Black writers and it still in publication today

  • Supreme Court ruled the Grandfather Clause Unconstitutional

    NAACP Challenges the Grandfather Clause and won

  • Silent March

    10,000 people participated in the New York City Silent march protesting lynchings and violent actions against Black People

  • NAACP Grows

    By this eaar there had more than 90,000 members and over 300 branches

  • Young Negroes Cooperative League

    purpose was to develop black economic power through collective planning.

  • Anti-Lynching Law Passed

    It took over 100 to finally get the Anti-lynching law passed.