Timeline and Terms

Events

Atlanta Compromise speech
Atlanta Riot
Bethune-Cookman College founded
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters established
Brownsville Affair
Compromise of 1877
First meeting of the Niagara Movement
Georgia Disfranchisement Amendment
Harlem Renaissance begins
Moore v. Dempsey
NAACP founded
NAACP protest in New York City
National Urban League founded
New Negro published
Plessy v. Ferguson
Race riot in Chicago
Race riot in East St. Louis, Illinois
Race riot in Elaine, Arkansas
Race riot in Springfield, Illinois
Race riot in Tulsa
Race riot in Washington, DC
Red Summer
Scottsboro Nine accused
Second Mississippi Plan
Segregation in government
Souls of Black Folk
Start of Great Migration
The Birth of a Nation
The Crisis published
Troops withdrawn from South
Tuskegee Institute founded
Universal Negro Improvement Association founded
Woodrow Wilson elected president
Woodrow Wilson re-elected

People

A. Philip Randolph
Booker T. Washington
George Washington Carver
Ida B. Wells
Langston Hughes
Marcus Garvey
Mary McLeod Bethune
Theodore Roosevelt
W.E.B. Du Bois
Woodrow Wilson
Zora Neale Hurston

Places

Chicago
Harlem

Organizations

Chicago Defender
Ku Klux Klan
labor agents
NAACP
National Urban League
Redeemers
scabs
Scottsboro Nine
Universal Negro Improvement Association