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The Great Migration begins 1910-1920,  movement continues through the 1960s

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The Great Migration begins 1910-1920,  movement continues through the 1960s

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Looking for better opportunities and treatment massive numbers of African Americans move from the Southern States to the Northern States.

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The Chicago Defender becomes the first African American owned Newspaper. Robert Abbott, the founder and the journalists he employed wrote stories for black Americans and about the perspective and problems facing black Americans. It becomes the most influential newspaper in the next decade and helped start the Great Migration.

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Lift Every Voice and Sing was composed by James and Weldon Johnson and becomes known as the black national anthem

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After the federal government began to give the Southern States their governing power back, the southern states fearing an end to white supremacy and holding racist beliefs stemming from the history of slavery passed laws intended to keep people separate and to take away rights granted by the reconstruction era. This system of racist laws was in place for almost 100 years in the South.

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Granted the rights of all people regardless of race to enjoy public spaces, theaters, libraries, etc, "subject to the conditions of law"

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The 15th Amendment in the constitution granted African American men the right to vote. Women of all races were not allowed to vote. In 1871 some of the first Jim Crow laws were passed as a backlash to the new rights given to black Americans.

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14th Amendment was passed to change the US constitution ensuring that the Bill of Rights in the Constitution were also granted to former slaves.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1866 granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States. Women still did not have the same rights as men.

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1865-1877 Reconstruction after the civil war

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1865-1877 Reconstruction after the civil war

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Southern Black people won election to southern state governments and even to the U.S. Congress during this period. Among the other achievements of Reconstruction were the South’s first state-funded public school systems, more equitable taxation legislation, laws against racial discrimination in public transport and accommodations and ambitious economic development programs (including aid to railroads and other enterprises).

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President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation in the midst of the Civil War, effectively freeing slaves. Though it wasn't official until the 13th Amendment to the US constitution was passed in 1865.

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U.S. Constitution adopted forming the United States. When counting the population for representation in the new government, slaves were counted as 3/5 a person.

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The Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson said "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." However he removed a section that condemned slavery after pressure from the Southern colonies.

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The Revolutionary War, which resulted in the British colonies forming what would become the United states is fought from 1775-1782

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1775 The first anti-slavery society formed, organizing for the abolition of slavery in the colonies.

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A Dutch ship brings 20 African indentured servants to the Jamestown colony, effectively beginning the inhumane slave trade in the colonies.