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U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1871 passed
The U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1871 was also known as the Klan Act and Thrid Enforcement Act. It was enacted to prohibit violence againts blacks. It was especially passed to protect the blacks from the Ku Klux Klan which was a group founded in 1865 by a group of Confederate veternans. They engaged in terrorist raids against blacks and white Republicans such as assault, destruction of property, and murder. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was a federal law that was made to end discrimination in public places. However, Congress could not control the behavior of individuals so the Supreme Court overturned the law in 1883. -
Ida B. Wells publishers her pamphlet Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All it's Phases
Southern HorrorsThe events leading up to the publishing of the book was due to the murder of her close friend. She looked into the charges of the lynchings and started her anti-lynching campaign. She raised 500 dollars by speaking out in black womens clubs.The money helped her research more about lynchings and she learned that blacks were lynched for reasons like not paying debts and competing with whites.She published her findings in her pamphlet along wth other contreversial topics about white women. -
First meeting of Niagra Movement
Niagra MovementThe Niagra movement was an interracial group that worked for civil rights. The group was working against racial segregation and disenfranchisement and it was opposed to the policies of African leaders like Booker T. Washington. The leaders of the group were Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. The name of the group was Niagra because they had their first meeting at the Niagra Falls. They had planned to have their first meeting in a hotel but the hotel refused to serve people of color. -
Springfield Race Riot of 1908
The riot was caused by the transfer of two African prisoners out of the county prison. They had been accused of raping Mabel Hallam and murdering Clergy Ballard. White people that had been angered that the two black people had done a crime againts a white person came together and demanded that they be released but they found out they had already been transfered. They had been angered by this so they crowd began terrorizing the black community. -
National Negro Committee
More about the NAACPThe National Negro Committee was made because of the Springfield Riot of 1908. Black activists and white progressives called for a meeting to discuss African American civil rights. During the second meeting it was renamed the National Association for the Advanced of Colored People also knowns as the NAACP. -
Guinn vs United States
Guinn vs United States took down grandfather clauses because the clause discrimiated against blacks which violated the fifteenth ammendment. The statute made voters pass a reading test but the law did not include the people that were allowed to vote on January 1, 1866 as well as their descendants. The law let people whose "grandfathers" were allowed to vote in 1866 register without passing a literacy test. Justice Edward White took down those laws with his case. -
East St. Louis Riot
The East St. Louis Riot caused about 40 through 200 deaths and property damage. It was an outbreak of labor and race related violence. It started when a car filled with four white people drove by a black community and fired shots. Then another car filled with four people came and the black people assumed it was the first car coming back.Some people describe it as one of the worse race riots in U.S. history. -
Houston Riot
Two officers were looking for someone in the neighborhood and they barged into a womens house and was arresting her. Alonso Edward who was a soldier asked what was going on and they arrested him and the woman. They later said that the woman was drunk and Edwards was interfering. When the corporal went to the station they beat, shot, and arrested him but soon set him free. 156 angry soldiers stole weapons and the riot began. It ended with 20 people dead including civilians. -
Tulsa Race Riot
More about the Tulsa Race RiotA group of white people attacked Tulsa, Oklahoma which was a black community.It began becuase a black person from there was accused of rape.It consisted of 16 hours of assault and 800 black people had to be admitted to white hospitals because the black hospital was burned down. Greenwood District also known as the Black Wall Street was the welathiest black community and it was burned down. An estimated 10,000 blacks were homeless and 35 city blocks that had about 1,256 residences were destroyed. -
Civil Rights Act of 1960
This was a federal law which was introudced by Eisenhowers reaction to a violent outbreak of bombings against chruches and schools in the South. The act was introduced to create penalties against anyone who obstructed someones attempt to vote or someones attempt to register to vote. -
A Soldiers Story
Soldiers Story trailerA soldiers story is a film dealing with racism in the U.S. millitary. It is about a black officer that is sent to investigate the murder of a black sergeant in Louisiana. The film deals with white officers that are deep into the Jim Crow South which are segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965.
