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Unfinished Business
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President Lincoln Elected
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Civil War starts
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Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln announces that all slaves will be free. -
Civil War ends
After it ends, reconstruction begins. -
Reconstruction ends
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Mass lynching of whites
Many whites killed most likely due to them being nice to black people. This number sharply decreases when whites "learn their place." -
Booker T. Washington forms the Tuskegee Institute
Aimed to train blacks at the work they'd excel the most at: agriculture and vocational education. -
Mass lynching of blacks
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Atlanta Compromise Address
Brooker T. Washington gave an address telling blacks to learn vocational skills and to work hard to get their place in the economy. -
Plessey v. Ferguson
Supreme Court ruled separate educational facilities for blacks were constitutional if they were equal. -
Theodore Roosevelt Elected
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W.E.B. DuBois publishes "The Soul of Black Folk"
Contrasted Washington's ideas about how black people should integrate into economic society. -
Niagra Movement
DuBois and 30 others drafted a series of demands essentially calling for an immediate end to all forms of discrimination. -
NAACP forms
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People forms and fights for equality on the national front.
