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Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement - 1900 - 1949

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement - 1900 - 1949: Encyclopedia II - Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement - 1900 - 1949

1905 July 11 - First meeting of the Niagara Movement. 1909 February 12 - First National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) meeting scheduled. 1910 September 29 - National Urban League founded. 1915 June 21 - In Guinn v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled against grandfather clauses used to deny Blacks the vote. 1919 summer - Red Summer of 1919 riots. Se ...

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Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement: Encyclopedia II - Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement - 1900 - 1949

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement - 1900 - 1949

1905

July 11 - First meeting of the Niagara Movement.

1909

February 12 - First National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) meeting scheduled.

1910

September 29 - National Urban League founded.

1915

June 21 - In Guinn v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled against grandfather clauses used to deny Blacks the vote.

1919

summer - Red Summer of 1919 riots.
September 28 - Omaha Race Riot of 1919.
October 1 - Elaine Race Riot: many Blacks were convicted or plead guilty, but the Supreme Court overturned six convictions in 1923 in Moore v. Dempsey.

1921

May 31 - Tulsa Race Riot

1923

February 19 - In Moore v. Dempsey, the Supreme Court held that mob-dominated trials violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

1925

unknown - Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organized.

1929

The League of United Latin American Citizens, the first organization to fight for the civil rights of Hispanic Americans, was founded in Corpus Christi, Texas.

1931

March 25 - Scottsboro Boys arrested. All were later freed, pardoned or paroled. The film Heaven's Fall was made about the incident.

1940

February 12 - In Chambers v. Florida, the Supreme Court freed three Black men who were coerced into confessing to a murder.

1941

early 1941 - U.S. Army forms African-American air combat units, the Tuskegee Airmen
June 25 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802, the "Fair Employment Act".

1943

unknown - Congress of Racial Equality founded.

1944

April 25 - United Negro College Fund incorporated.
July 17 - Port Chicago disaster, which led to the Port Chicago Mutiny.

1945:

unknown - Freeman Field Mutiny, where Black officers attempted to desegregate an all-white officers club.

1947

April 9 - The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sends 16 men on the Journey of Reconciliation.

1948

May 3 - In Shelley v. Kraemer the Supreme Court upheld the use of restrictive covenants on private property but not public property.
July 12 - Hubert Humphrey makes a controversial speech in favor of American Civil rights at the Democratic National Convention
July 26 - President Harry S. Truman issues Executive Order 9981 ending segregation in the armed forces.

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