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Music
African american music includes ragtime, jazz, blues, house, doo wop, rico and roll, hip hop, disco, and techno. all of wich originated from the historicle conditions of slavery. -
jim crow
Jim crows racial segregation laws went into effect. -
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Reconstruction and jim crow
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Kwanzaa
The biggest African American Religion in the U.S. -
troubles
Armed African Americans surround the county seat in Colfax, Louisiana, fearing whites will illegally overthrow the Republican government. About 300 African Americans are killed in the so-called Colfax Massacre. -
bank for the colored
The Freedman's Savings and Trust Co., a bank for American-Africans which many thought was guaranteed by the U.S. government, fails and leaves a legacy of mistrust of white-run institutions. -
poll tax
Mississippi enacts a poll tax, which most African Americans cannot afford to pay, to try to keep blacks from voting. -
carters research
World-famous agricultural researcher George Washington Carver accepts an appointment at the Tuskegee Institute. Carver's research in farming techniques helps to revolutionize farming in America. -
First colored theater
Robert "Bob" Cole produces "A Trip to Coontown," the first full-length musical written, directed, performed, and produced by African Americans, on Broadway. -
south to north
The Great Migration of southern African Americans to northern industrial towns gets underway. Millions of African Americans will have migrated North by the 1960s.
