1929
On the 15th of January, Martin Luther King, Jr., is born in Atlanta.
1920
1927
In Gong Lum v. Rice, 275 U.S. 78 (1927), the Supreme Court holds that a Mississippi school district May require a Chinese-American girl to attend a segregated black school rather than a white school. The Court applies the “separate but equal” formulation of Plessy v. Ferguson to the public schools.
1921
June
Race riots in Tulsa, Oklahoma erupt in the Greenwood district of the city. White mobs rampage through the mostly black Greenwood for three days, setting fire to black-owned property, breaking into homes, and looting business. The rioters kill 250 people, destroy 35 city blocks, and 18,000 black homes, businesses, and churches. Four thousand blacks who are rendered homeless are relocated to fair grounds in cattle and hog pens.
1920
The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women the right to vote.
Beginning in the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan experiences a revitalization. The Klan attracts over 100,000 members across the nation and dominates state governments in Indiana and Oregon
1920
The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women the right to vote.
Beginning in the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan experiences a revitalization. The Klan attracts over 100,000 members across the nation and dominates state governments in Indiana and Oregon
June
Race riots in Tulsa, Oklahoma erupt in the Greenwood district of the city. White mobs rampage through the mostly black Greenwood for three days, setting fire to black-owned property, breaking into homes, and looting business. The rioters kill 250 people, destroy 35 city blocks, and 18,000 black homes, businesses, and churches. Four thousand blacks who are rendered homeless are relocated to fair grounds in cattle and hog pens.
In Gong Lum v. Rice, 275 U.S. 78 (1927), the Supreme Court holds that a Mississippi school district May require a Chinese-American girl to attend a segregated black school rather than a white school. The Court applies the “separate but equal” formulation of Plessy v. Ferguson to the public schools.
