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1945 to the Present
No event proved more important to the course of modern American history than World War II. The war cast America onto the world stage as a...
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Different Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement
In 1984 Jimmy Carter reflected on growing up in the...
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The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies
From the earliest years of European settlement in North America, whites enslaved and oppressed black people. Although the Civil War finally brought about the abolition...
Glossary Term – Event
Red Summer
Race riots erupted across the nation from late spring through the early fall of 1919. In dozens of incidents of racial violence, African Americans were beaten, terrorized, and murdered. The NAACP appealed to President Wilson to investigate the attacks, but federal and local governments did little to address the violence.
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NAACP founded
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by Mary White Ovington and others on the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.
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NAACP protest in New York City
The NAACP organized a march of 10,000 men, women, and children down Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to protest the East St. Louis race riot.
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The Crisis published
The first issue of the Crisis, the magazine of the NAACP, was published in November 1910. W. E. B. Du Bois became editor of the magazine, using it as a platform to denounce racism, promote the artistic works of black Americans, and call attention to the discrimination and violence faced by black Americans.
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Medgar Evers murdered
Civil rights organizer and NAACP state field secretary Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Freedom Summer
In Mississippi, civil rights advocates organized a Freedom Summer, registering African American voters and teaching literacy and black history.