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14th Amendment Passed
Amendment forbids any state from stopping citizens of their rights and privileges and defines citizenship. -
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Civil Rights Movement
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Plessy v. Ferguson decision
Supreme court orders that blacks and whites have equal facilities, gives legal approval to jim crow laws. -
Booker T. Washington writes Up From Slavery
Washington arguing that gradual progress is the best for blacks. He focuses on jobs and thinks that self-respect and self-help would bring better oppurtunities. -
Niagara Movements
W.E.B. DuBois demands immediate racial equality and opposes all laws that treats blacks as different from others. -
Grandfather clause outlawed by Supreme Court
The NAACP challenged the state laws, that restricted black voting regisstration. -
Race riots and lynchings claim hundreds of lives
over 25 race riots occur in the summer of 1919, with 38 killed in Chicago -
Executive Order 8802 forbids race discrimination in hiring
FDR sets up Fair Employment Practices Commission to assure non-discrimination policies in federal hiring -
Japanese-Americans sent to concentration camps
Concerned over potential disloyalty, FDR allows 110,000 to be rounded up in western states
