1895: Booker T. Washington delivers his Atlanta Exposition speech, which accepts segregation of the races.

1896: The Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson the separate but equal treatment of the races is constitutional.

1900-1915: Over one thousand blacks are lynched in the states of the former Confederacy.

1905: The Niagara Movement is founded by W.E.B. du Bois and other black leaders to urge more direct action to achieve black civil rights.

1910: National Urban League is founded to help the conditions of urban African Americans.

1925: Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey is convicted of mail fraud.

1928: For the first time in the 20th century an African American is elected to Congress.

1931: Farrad Muhammad establishes in Detroit what will become the Black Muslim Movement.

1933: The NAACP files -and loses- its firs suit against segregation and discrimination in education.

1938: The Supreme Court orders the admission of a black applicant to the University of Missouri Law School

1947: Jackie Robinson breaks the color line in major league baseball.

1965: Rioting in the black ghetto of Watts in Los Angeles leads to 35 deaths, 900 injuries, and over 3,500 arrests.

1968: Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee, precipitating riots in more than one hundred cities.

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