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Plessy v Ferguson
it essentially established the constitutionality of racial segregation. -
Booker T Washington
Most famous black man at the time and was an author, educator, orator, and philanthropist. -
Roosevelt and Washington
event provoked an outpouring of condemnation from white politicians and press in the American South. -
W.E.B. DuBois
He was the legal arm of the NAACP led the campaign to end segregation altogether, but it first targeted inequality in education. -
Lynching of African American
Killing black people because of racist reasons. -
Chicago Race Riot
Crowds gathered in Chicago after the drowning death of Eugene Williams, an African American teenager who had crossed an imaginary boundary in the water separating blacks from whites -
Jack Johnson
Most famous boxer of the 20s and was heavyweight champion. -
Racial Discriminating Deaths
Map of all the hottest areas of deaths caused by racial inequality. -
Ku Klux Klan
Group of racist white men who torture any African american people or other minorities in their eyes. -
Marcus Garvey
organized the United States' first Black nationalist movement (UNIA). -
Louis Armstrong
Made jazz music and was known as the master of the trumpeter. -
Scottsboro Boys
each of the boys were released from prison on false rape accusation -
Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson
The DAR's refusal to grant Marian Anderson the use of Constitution Hall, Eleanor Roosevelt's resignation from the DAR in protest. -
Red Tail Squadron
Tuskegee Airmen -
Morgan v Virginia
U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Virginia law requiring racial segregation on commercial interstate buses as a violation of the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. -
Truman and African American Air Force Sergeant
Truman shakes african american air force sergeants hand in honor.