a timeline of Early Jim Crow in the American South
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From Reconstruction to Plessy v. Ferguson First state legislatures with black representatives convene 1867 A Timeline of Early Jim Crow in the Southern United States Fourteenth Amendment is ratified 1868 Fifteenth Amendment is ratified 1870 President Grant signs the Ku Klux Klan Act 1871 The Colfax Massacre: The White League kills 100 black members of Louisiana state militia 1873 The First Mississippi Plan e�ects a 60,000 vote reversal in one year 1875 Civil Rights Bill passed as last act of Republican Congress 1875 The Compromise of 1877 brings Reconstruction to a close 1877 Supreme Court rules Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional 1883 Louisiana law requires separate train facilities 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention disenfranchises blacks 1890 Homer Plessy, an octoroon, arrested for sitting in white train car 1892 Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" speech 1895 Emancipation Proclamation 1863 1865 1870 Plessy v. Ferguson makes "separate but equal" the law of the land 1896 1875 1880 1885 1890 1895 1900 1905 1910 1915
