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Changing conditions
African American writers recorded the changing conditions: on one hand the disappointments and hardships of being black, on the other hand the definition of self as a thinking reflecting being in a society -
Women Rights Convention
The backbone of the anti slavery movement. -
Ku Kux Klan was established
Their purpose was to supress and terrorise African Americans. -
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The Reconstruction Act
People helped former slaves become part of society. Three amendments were passed in this time, giving black people more rights. -
The transcontinental railroad was build.
Build by exploited Asians and African Americans. -
The Republican Party lost
The Democratic Party won which were on the side of southern separatists. -
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Outlawing of slavery in the south
Slavery was officially outlawed. -
The Tuskegee Insitute
The establishment of a black college. -
The Supreme Court overturned the Civil Rights Act of 1875
Everything was segregated, and black men was disen'franchised. -
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Lynchings
In this period 2500 black men were lynched, hanged, burnt alive, castrated and tortured. -
"Iola Leroy"
One of many personal experiences written during the Reconstruction Period, the novel pictures one of the most prominent early exsamples of African American fiction written by a young woman. -
Plessy v Ferguson
The Supreme Court decied and declared that segregation was not unconsitutional as long as equal facilities were available. -
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William Faulkner
One of the white writers that began dealing with the complexity of racism in Southern culture. He is known for being a really brilliant writer. -
The Revival of the KKK
Thomas Dixon Jr. wrote "An historical romance of the Ku Kux Klan", to prevent moral decay and to maintain the segregation of races. -
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Blacks went north
WW1 made thousands of African Americans go north and get jobs in the military, on the railroad and in factories due to white male Americans went off to Europe to fight. -
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The Harlem Renaissance
African Americans moved to Harlem to unfold their creativity, such as jazz, blues, dance. Harlem was called "The Capital of Negro" in this period of time. -
The Wall Street crash
The crash put an end to the Harlem Renaissance, and started The Great Depression. -
"Gone with the wind"
Margaret Mitchells book won the Pullitzer Prize, and was made into one of the most popular films ever made, that helped portrate the myth of the happy slave.