Richard Wright’s America (scroll down for timeline):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision: Plessey vs. Ferguson

1901 George H. White of North Carolina leaves office

1901 Booker T. Washington’s controversial White House visit

1901 Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery published

1903 W.E.B. Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folks

1904 Mary McLeod Bethune founds college in Daytona Beach, Florida.

1904 Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller – medicine and psychiatry

1906 Brownsville Affray

1906 Atlanta Race Riots

1907 Alain Locke receives Rhodes Scholarship

1908 Springfield (Illinois) Race Riot

1909 N.A.A.C.P formed

1910 National Urban League formed

1910 Baltimore Segregation Ordinance

1913 President Woodrow Wilson initiates segregation of federal offices

1915 “Great Migration” begins

1915 “Grandfather clause” overturned by U.S. Supreme Court in Guinn vs. United States

1916 Marcus Garvey founds UNIA

1916 Garret Morgan invents gas mask

1917 U.S. Supreme Court Decision: Buchanan vs. Warley

1917 East St. Louis Race Riot

1917 Houston Mutiny

1919 Claude Barnett and the Associated Negro Press

1919 Red Summer riots

1919 Oscar Mischeaux releases “The Homesteader”

1919 Ku Klux Klan revival in Stone Mountain, Georgia + Lynchings throughout the South

1920 Harlem Renaissance begins

1921 New York Art Exhibition featuring works of: Henry Ossawa Tanner & Meta-Vaux Warrick Fuller

1921 Tulsa Race Riot

1923 Rosewood Massacre in Florida

1923 Ossian Sweet Trial – (with Clarence Darrow as defense counsel)

1928 Oscar DePriest elected to congress from Chicago

1931 Walter White named Executive Secretary of N.A.A.C.P

1931 Scottsboro Boys Trial (round one)

1935 Mary McLeod Bethune founds National Council of Negro Women

1935 U.S. Supreme Court decision: Norris vs. Alabama

1935 U.S. Supreme Court decision: Murray vs. Pearson

1936 Jesse Owens at Berlin Olympics

1937 Joe Louis wins heavyweight championship