Black Riots In American History

The years after 1877 were to say the "Reconstruction" of the black condition improves. In this case, the right to vote is granted. Several hundred are elected in state assemblies and Congress. Northern troops occupied the South to enforce the new amendments of the Constitution. Booker T. Washington in 1881, black leader and advocate of conciliation, founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. And the Supreme Court nullified the law on civil rights in 1875 declaring unconstitutional. In 1896 Stop Plessy against Ferguson: the Supreme Court establishes access "separate but equal" to blacks and whites in the railways, thus legalizing segregation. Many organisms are born. Mary Church Terrell, black activist, founded the National Association of Colored
In 1919 "Red Summer": a wave of racist violence unparalleled in American history results in significant anti-black riots in several cities. Lynchings and attacks against the American black community are increasing throughout the summer. In Chicago, there are many dead, nearly five hundred wounded and several thousand families homeless. About 1921 Thousands of whites, including hundreds of police, encouraged by the local press, engaged for three days of very violent attacks against the black community in Tulsa (Oklahoma). More than 300 African Americans were killed and buried in mass or thrown into the Arkansas River pits. Oklahoma authorities officially recognize the crimes committed 80 years
Formed steering in France, she is the first American citizen to have won the famous license of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Then in 1925 A. Philip Randolph created the Brotherhood of Sleeping Cars Porters (BSCP), first black union to successfully negotiate with a company owned by whites. Again later to the 1940s the legal defense fund and training consists of the NAACP. It will become the fundamental legal weapon in the fight for civil rights. And 7 December 1941 Entry into the war the United States. A million black Americans, men and women serving in the armed forces - still segregated. And June 25, 1941 President Roosevelt ordered the hiring of black Americans in the war industry. But in 1942 anti-black riots in Detroit. Creation of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Chicago, one of the leading organizations fighting for civil rights. June 1943 Incidents between whites and blacks in an amusement park in Detroit. President Roosevelt sent federal troops to restore order. On August 2, 1943 Violent mass movements in Harlem after the murder of a black soldier in uniform with a police