1900 - November
James Weldon Johnson writes ....
1901 - January 29
George H. White’s term as ....
1901 - October 16
Booker T. Washington becomes ....
1901 - November 11
Alabama adopts a new ....
1903
W.E.B. DuBois publishes ....
1903 - November 2, 1903
St. Luke Penny Savings Bank ....
1903 - March 27
The U.S. Supreme Court ....
1904 - October 3
Mary McLeod Bethune founds ....
1905 - May 5
The Chicago Defender ....
1905 - July 11-14
The Niagara Movement ....
1906 - August 13-14
The Brownsville Affair ....
1906 - September 22-24
Inflamed by four never-substantiated ....
1906 - October 22
Three thousand African Americans ....
1908 - August 14-19
A deadly race riot in ....
1908 - December 26
Black boxer Jack ....
1909 - February 12
Appalled by last year's riot ....
1909 - April 6
An African-American explorer ....
1909 - December 4
The New York Amsterdam News ....
1910 - November 1
The NAACP publishes ....
1912 - September 28
W.C. Handy’s “Memphis Blues” ....
1913 - April 11
President Woodrow Wilson meets ....
1915
The Great Migration begins ....
1915 - March 21
“Birth of a Nation,” ....
1915 - June 21
The Supreme Court, ruling in ....
1915 - July 28
Haiti becomes ....
1916 - January 1
The first issue of the ....
1917 - May 27-30, July 1-3
A series of deadly race riots ....
1917 - July 25-28
A race riot that springs from ....
1917 - July 28
Ten thousand African Americans ....
1917 - August 23
African-American soldiers mutiny ....
1917 - December 11
Thirteen African-American soldiers ....
1918 - May 15
The Battle of Henry Johnson is one of ....
1918 July 26-29
A race riot in Philadelphia ....
1918 September 3
Five African-American soldiers are ....
1919
Red Sumner ....
1919 - October
The Kansas City Call ....
1920
The 1920s
This decade will be ....
1921 - January
A federal anti-lying bill ....
1921 - May 23
“Shuffle Along,” the first ....
1921 - May 31-June 1
A thriving African-American community in ....
1923 - June 21
Black nationalist leader
....
1923 - September 15
Its governor declares that ....
1925 - August 25
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters ....
1925 - September 8
Ossian Sweet, an African-American doctor ....
1925 - November 12
Louis Armstrong records ....
1926 - February
Historian Carter G. Woodson ....
1927 - March 7
The Supreme Court strikes down ....
1927 - November 18
President Coolidge commutes ....
1928 - Agust 5
The Atlanta Daily World ....
1928 - November 6
Oscar DePriest is elected ....
1929 - October 29
The stock market crashes ....
1929 - December
“Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” ....
1931 - April 6
Nine African-American teenagers ....
1933 - March
The Los Angeles Sentinel ....
1934 - November 6
Oscar DePriest, an African-American ....
1935 - October 3
Italy invades Ethiopia ....
1935 - December 5
The National Council of Negro Women ....
1936 - January 15
The University of Maryland is ....
1936 - April 14
The Michigan Chronicle ....
1936 - Augusr 9
Sprinter Jesse Owens wins ....
1936 - December 8
The NAACP files suit ....
1937 - March 25
William H. Hastie becomes ....
1937 - June 22
Joe Louis becomes ....
1937 - October 1
The Pullman Company formally ....
1938 - December 12
The Supreme Court rules in ....
1939 - April 9
African-American contralto Marian ....
1940 - March 1
“Native Son,” by Richard ....
1940 - March 20
The NAACP Legal Defense and Education ....
1941 - January 25
Asa Philip Randolph of the ....
1941 - June 18
President Roosevelt, alarmed by ....
1941 - June 25
President Roosevelt issues Executive ....
1941 - July 19
The U.S. Army opens ....
1941 - August 6
An altercation between ....
1941 - December 7
In the Japanese surprise attack ....
1942 - February 28
A race riot in Detroit ....
1942 - June 18
Bernard W. Robinson becomes ....
1942 - November 1
John H. Johnson publishes ....
1942 - November
The Congress of Racial ....
1943 - January 5
William H. Hastie, former ....
1943 - May 25
White workers at the Alabama Dry ....
1943 - June 2
The Ninety-ninth Pursuit Squadron ....
1943 - June 16
Two people are killed in ....
1943 - June 20
A massive street brawl between ....
The National Congress of ....
1943 - August 1-2
A white police officer’s attempt to ....
1944 - April 3
The Supreme Court strikes ....
1944 - April 24
The United Negro College ....
1945 - March 12
New York enacts the ....
1945 - September 18
A thousand white students ....
1945 - November 1
1946 - February 26
A dispute over the ....
1946 - May 1
An African-American woman ....
1946 - August 10
Between 50 and 100 African- Americans ....
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