African American History 1900-1940

By chen.3972

  • The Civil Rights Movement

    Nashville African Americans boycott streetcars to protest racial segregation.

  • Racial Violence

    Springfield Race Riot breaks out in Springfield, Illinois, the home town of Abramham Lincoln. Two blacks and four whites are killed. This is the first major riot in a Northern city in nearly half a century.

  • Black Organization

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is formed in New York City, partly in response to the Springfield Riot.

  • Jim Crow Legislation

    The City Council of Baltimore approves an ordinance segregating black and white neighborhoods. This ordinance is followed by similar statutes in Dallas, Texas, Greensboro, North Carolina, Louisville, Kentucky, Norfolk, Virginia, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Richmond, Virginia, Roanoke, Virginia, and St. Louis, Missouri.

  • African Americans in WW1

    On August 1, World War I began in Europe.

  • Racial Violence

    Nearly 10,000 African Americans and their supporters march down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on July 28 as part of a silent parade, an NAACP-organized protest against lynchings, race riots, and the denial of rights. This is the first major civil rights demonstration in the 20th Century.

  • Racial Violence

    The Ku Klux Klan is revived in 1915 at Stone Mountain, Georgia, and by the beginning of 1919 operates in 27 states. Eighty-three African Americans are lynched during the year, among them a number of returning soldiers still in uniform. - See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/timelines/african-american-history-timeline-1900-2000#sthash.e83ckBJo.dpuf

  • Black Population

    Census of 1920, Black population: 10,463,131 (9.9 percent), U.S. population: 105,710,620.

  • African American Athletes

    Rojo Jack is the first African American to particiapte in professional car racing when he competes in a race in Honolulu Hawaii.

  • The civil Rights Movement

    W.E.B. Du Bois resigns from the NAACP in a dispute over the strategy of the organization in its campaign against racial discrimination. Roy Wilkins becomes the new editor of Crisis magazine.