The Civil Rights Movement Revised Edition

1895

18 September Booker T. Washington delivers his Atlanta Compromise speech.

1896

6 May Plessyv. Fergusonpermits ‘separate but equal’ treatment of the races.

1898

25 April Williamsv. Mississippipermits poll taxes and literacy tests for voting.

1909

1 June NAACP organizes.

1915

21 June Guinnv. USstrikes down the grandfather clause.

1919

9 April CIC organizes.

Summer Race riots erupt across the country.

1929 Charles Houston creates a law laboratory in civil rights at Howard University.

1930

1 November Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching organizes.

1931 ‘Jobs for Negroes’ movement begins.

1933 ‘Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work’ movement begins.

1938

12 December Missouri ex rel. Gainesv. Canadarules black schools must be equal to white

ones.

November SCHW organizes.

1941

18 April Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., organizes a boycott that forces New York City

bus companies to hire black drivers.

25 June After A. Philip Randolph threatens a mass march, president Franklin D.

Roosevelt bans discrimination in war industries and establishes a temporary

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