Ida B. Wells

By RueJohn22

  • United States Civil War

    The South threatened to secede from the North and a Civil War erupted.

  • Ida B. Wells Born

    Born in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Congress passed the Emancipation Proclamation introduced by President Abraham Lincoln.
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    Reconstruction Era

    Government effort to reorganize the South and rebuild the North.

  • Fifteenth Amendment

    Ratified into law granting African American the right to vote.

  • Jim Crow Era begins

    Set of laws, known as the "Black Codes," created by white southerners to restrict the rights of African Americans.

  • Statue of Liberty is unveiled

    President Grover Cleveland the Statue of Liberty to the United States.

  • Columbian Exposition

    An event to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' expedition to the "New World."

  • Plessy v. Ferguson judgement

    U.S. Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" was legal in the South.

  • NAACP Founding

    The National Association of Colored People was founded.

  • The Great Migration

    Millions of African Americans begin moving out of the South to the North, Midwest, and Western parts of the country.

  • Women's Suffrage Parade

    Women of various suffrage groups marched in a parade in Washington D.C.
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    World War I

    The U.S. enters World War I in Europe

  • Tulsa Massacre

    Race riot perpetrated on the African American residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, supported by U.S. military

  • The Great Depression

  • Ida B. Wells Death

    Ida B. Wells passes away.