https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks en-us 2017-01-18 15:25:50 UTC 2026-02-24 19:10:00 UTC hello@padlet.com 98stemar47175 https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147840892 the General Court of Colonial Virginia gave the white servants additional years to serve while John Punch, a black man, was sentenced to servitude for life. Punch was the first African in Virginia to be enslaved for life. ]]> 2017-01-18 15:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147840892 98stemar47175 https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147844778 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, including inns, theaters, public conveyances on land or water, and "other places of public amusement."]]> 2017-01-18 15:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147844778 98stemar47175 https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147846514 Thousands of southern blacks frustrated with discrimination and poverty in the South emigrated to the West. They met hostility from western whites and Native Americans. This is sometimes called the Exodus of 1879.]]> 2017-01-18 15:47:04 UTC https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147846514 98stemar47175 https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147849187 In 1882, at least 49 blacks were lynched. According to Tuskegee Institute data, 3,438 blacks were lynched between the years 1882 and 1951.]]> 2017-01-18 15:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147849187 98stemar47175 https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147849399 The United States Supreme Court ruled in Civil Rights Cases of 1883 that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional. The Court ruled that the 14th Amendment prohibited states, but not citizens, from discriminating. This civil rights reversal was devastating for African Americans.]]> 2017-01-18 15:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147849399 98stemar47175 https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147849590 Supreme Court upheld the concept of separate but equal public facilities; thereby, offering approval of Jim Crow laws nationwide.]]> 2017-01-18 15:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147849590 98stemar47175 https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147854608 Founded in 1915 and inspired by the Reconstruction-era organization of the same name, the second Ku Klux Klan shared with its nineteenth-century namesake a deep racism, a fascination with mystical regalia, and a willingness to use violence to silence its foes. It also professed anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism as strongly as it affirmed racism. The "secret" society had 3 million members during its heyday in the early 1920s; roughly half its members lived in metropolitan areas, and although it enjoyed considerable support in the South, the Klan was strongest in the Midwest and Southwest. Forty thousand members of the Klan marched down Pennsylvania Avenue on August 8, 1925.]]> 2017-01-18 16:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147854608 98stemar47175 https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147855115 Nine Black boys tried for raping two White women. The defendants were hastily and wrongly convicted, but by 1950 all were free by parole, appeal, or escape.]]> 2017-01-18 16:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147855115 98stemar47175 https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147855674 President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, making segregation in public facilities and discrimination in employment illegal.]]> 2017-01-18 16:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/98stemar47175/chlxr4e75fks/wish/147855674