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Brown at 50 Chronology Page 3 of 7
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1866-67 | KKK founded in Nashville Tennessee |
| 7/9/1868 | 14th Amendment Ratified (requiring states to grant equal protection) |
| 1869 | Howard University school of Law founded |
| 1870 | 15th Amendment Ratified (voting) |
| 1873 | Slaughter House Cases, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36 (1873): Supreme Court limits the scope of federal power and reach of 14th Amendment to protect rights of citizens of U.S. against states |
| 1875 | Civil Rights Act of 1875 |
| 1877 | End of Reconstruction |
| 1880 | Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303 (1880): Supreme Court holds that states are prohibited from excluding blacks from juries by the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 1883 | Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883): Supreme Court holds unconstitutional the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and holds that the 14th Amendment does not prohibit discrimination by private persons |
| 1887 | Florida passes law requiring segregation; Jim Crow laws follow throughout the South |
| 1890 | Louisiana passes a Jim Crow law mandating separate but equal accommodations on railroads for black and white |
| 1890-1920 | Between 1889 and 1918, 3,224 people, predominantly African Americans, are murdered by lynching |
| 1896 | Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896): upholds separate but equal law of Louisiana |
| 1899 | Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education, 175 U.S. 528 (1899): public school education is a matter for state regulation, not federal government; local school district can close black school while keeping two white schools open on fiscal grounds |
| 1903 | Giles v. Harris, 189 U.S. 475 (1903): Supreme Court permits black disnefranchisement through state voter registration regulations |
| 1908 | Berea College v. Kentucky, 211 U.S. 45 (1908): Supreme Court rules that private schools are bound by state segregation laws |
| 1909 | NAACP Founded |
| 1917 | Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60 (1917): state-mandated residential segregation violates 14th Amendment |
| 1920 | KKK revives |
| 1927 | Gong Lum v. Rice, 275 U.S. 78 (1927): states can define racial classifications for schools; separate but equal logic used |
| 1934 | Charles Hamilton Houson becomes special counsel to the NAACP |
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