Fannie lou hamer quotes

The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution abolishes slavery.

Fisk University is founded in Nashville. Pictured below is the university when it was founded versus contemporary times.

Hampton Normal and Agricultural School, later renamed Hampton Institute and then Hampton University, is founded in Hampton, Virginia.

The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution provides equal protection to all citizens, and grants citizenship to everyone born in the United States.

Sarah Hopkins Bradford brings Harriett Tubman to the nation&#;s attention by publishing Scenes in the Life of Harriett Tubman.

The fifteenth amendment to the Constitution provides voting rights to all male citizens by prohibiting states and the national government from denying anyone the right to vote based on &#;race, color, or previous condition of servitude.&#;

But the passage also generates resentment and reprisals directed at black citizens&#;reprisals that will continue for years.

Harvard-educated Richard T.

Greener () becomes the first black professor at the University of South Carolina.

During the so-called &#;Battle of Liberty Place&#; in New Orleans (essentially a riot on behalf of the White League), a gang of ex-Confederate soldiers seeks to oust Louisiana&#;s Republican governor and its black lieutenant governor. General James Longstreet, who served under General Lee, intervenes to help put down the riot to restore the elected government.

The Civil Rights Act of guarantees equal treatment to all Americans, regardless of race, when it comes to public accommodations such as railroads, restaurants, and hotels.

Fannie lou hamer biography timeline designs Hamer is one of the organizers of Freedom Farm, a short-lived coop that is part of her campaign against rural poverty. Hamer runs unsuccessfully for the Mississippi State Senate. During her campaign she addresses feminism in several of her campaign speeches.

(But in , the act is declared unconstitutional, a ruling which held until the Court reversed itself in the mids.)

Tuskegee Normal School, later known as Tuskegee Institute, is founded on July 4, under the leadership of Booker T. Washington.

The Civil Rights Act of is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

The ruling offers a path to the invention of Jim Crow legislation. Soon interracial marriage and the education of Negroes are forbidden in many parts of the South. Black and white citizens are also forbidden to play together, attend theatres and restaurants together,  even to be buried in the same cemeteries.

Interventions by baseball star Adrian &#;Cap&#; Anson result in the banning of black players from so-called Organized Baseball, a ban that would persist until

Ida B.

Wells refuses to give up her seat during a train trip.

Shown below is the home of Ida B Wells in Holly Springs, Mississippi, as pictured in

The Supreme Court rules, in Yick Wo v. Hopkins, that San Franciscans could not discriminate against Chinese laundry workers.

Ida B. Wells becomes co-owner and editor of the Free Speech and Headlight newspaper in Memphis, a platform for the anti-lynching campaign she would wage in the coming years.

When three of her close friends are lynched in Memphis, Ida B.

Wells begins her decades-long anti-lynching crusade.

Fannie lou hamer biography timeline designs images Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King. February 17, The International Slavery Museum recognizes Hamer as a “Black Achiever” and hangs her portrait next to one of President Barack Obama in their permanent exhibit. February 21, The US Postal Service included Fannie Lou Hamer among twelve.

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases appears on October

Anna Julia Cooper publishes her A Voice from the South.

Angered by the institution of Jim Crow laws in the late nineteenth century South, Rev. Henry McNeil Turner begins to support black nationalism and emigration of blacks to Africa.

(He also supported the prohibition of alcohol and the women&#;s suffrage movement.)

February 13:

Ida B. Wells speaks on &#;Lynch Law&#; before an all-white audience in Boston.

Richard T. Greener publishes &#;The White Problem,&#; which redefines &#;the black problem.&#;

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin convenes the First National Conference of the Colored Women of America.

The National Federation of Afro-American Women is founded.

Harriett Tubman is the keynote speaker at the first gathering.

Hallie Quinn Brown speaks at a Women&#;s Christian Temperance Union meeting in London. For the next two years she speaks often in England about the evils of Jim Crow.

February

The death of Frederick Douglass.

September

Booker T.

Washington offers his &#;Atlanta Compromise&#; speech. For more information on this speech, consult the Voices of Democracy entry on it here.