1869 Wyoming enfranchised women

1881 President Garfield assassinated

1881 Tuskegee Institute founded

1881 Tennessee segregated railroad cars

1882 Forty-nine black Americans are known to have been lynched

1883 On October 15, the Supreme Court declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional.

1883 Sojourner Truth dies.

1883 Fifty-three black Americans are known to have been lynched

1884 Cleveland elected president

1884 Fifty-one black Americans are known to have been lynched

1885 Seventy-four black Americans are known to have been lynched

1886 The American Federation of Labor was organized

1886 Seventy-four black Americans are known to have been lynched

1887 Seventy black Americans are known to have been lynched

1887 Florida segregated railroad cars

1888 Benjamin Harrison (Republican) was elected president

1888 Sixty-nine black Americans are known to have been lynched

1888 Mississippi segregated railroad cars

1889 Texas segregated railroad cars

1889 Ninety-four black Americans are known to have been lynched

1890 Census of 1890. U.S. population:62,947,714

1890 The Mississippi Plan, approved on November 1, used literacy and "understanding" tests to disenfranchise black American citizens.

1890 Louisiana segregated railroad cars

1890 Eighty-five black Americans are known to have been lynched

1891 One hundred and thirteen black Americans are known to have been lynched

1891 Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Georgia segregated railroad cars

1893 Hannah Greenbaum Solomon founded the National Council of Jewish Women

1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois

1893 Colorado enfranchised women

1894 The Pullman strike

1894 One hundred and thirty-four black Americans are known to have been lynched

1895 African-American leader and statesman Frederick Douglass died

1895 South Carolina disfranchised African Americans

1895 The Atlanta Compromise.

1895 One hundred and thirteen black Americans are known to have been lynched

1896 Plessy v. Ferguson

1896 Idaho and Utah enfranchised women

1896 The National Association of Colored Women was formed

1896 William McKinley (Republican) was elected president

1896 Seventy-eight black Americans are known to have been lynched

1897 One hundred and twenty-three black Americans are known to have been lynched

1898 Louisiana disfranchised African Americans

1898 South Carolina segregated railroad cars

1898 The Spanish-American -Cuban-Filipino War

1898 One hundred and one black Americans are known to have been lynched

1898 The Afro-American Council designated June 4 as a national day of fasting to protest lynchings and massacres

1899 Eighty-five black Americans are known to have been lynched

1899 North Carolina segregated railroad cars

1900 Virginia segregated railroad cars

1900 North Carolina disfranchised African Americans

1900 Census of 1900 U.S. population:75,994,575

1900 One hundred and six black Americans are known to have been lynched

1900 The Paris Exposition

1901 Alabama and Virginia disfranchised African Americans

1901 President McKinley assassinated. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him as president.

1901 One hundred and five black Americans are known to have been lynched

1902 Eighty-five black Americans are known to have been lynched

1903 the Women's Trade Union League of New York formed

1903 W. E. B. Du Bois's, The Souls of Black Folk, was published

1903 Eighty-four black Americans are known to have been lynched

1904 Seventy-six black Americans are known to have been lynched

1904 Maryland segregated railroad cars

1905 Fifty-seven black Americans are known to have been lynched

1906 Sixty-two black Americans are known to have been lynched

1907 Oklahoma segregated railroad cars

1908 Georgia disfranchised African Americans

1908 Eighty-nine black Americans are known to have been lynched

1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was formed

1909 Sixty-nine black Americans are known to have been lynched

1910 Oklahoma disfranchised African Americans

1910 Census of 1910: U.S. population: 93,402,151

1910 Sixty-seven black Americans are known to have been lynched

1910 Washington enfranchised women

1911 California enfranchised women

1911 Sixty black Americans are known to have been lynched

1912 Oregon and Arizona enfranchised women

1912 Woodrow Wilson (Democrat) was elected president

1912 Sixty-one black Americans are known to have been lynched

1912 Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive (Bull Moose/Republican) Party became the first national political party to adopt a woman suffrage plank

1913 Alice Paul and Lucy Burns organized the Congressional Union, later known as the National Women's Party (1916).

1913 Harriet Tubman dies

1913 On April 11, the Wilson administration began government-wide segregation of work places, rest rooms and lunch rooms

1913 Fifty-one black Americans are known to have been lynched

1914 Fifty-one black Americans are known to have been lynched

1914 Nevada and Montana enfranchised women

1914 World War I began in Europe

1915 Booker T. Washington dies

1915 Fifty-six black Americans are known to have been lynched

1916 Fifty black Americans are known to have been lynched

1916 Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first American woman elected to represent her state in the U.S. House of Representatives.

1917 America entered World War I

1917 Thirty-six black Americans are known to have been lynched

1918 World War I ends

1918 Sixty black Americans are known to have been lynched

1919 the "Red Summer"

1919 Seventy-six black Americans are known to have been lynched

1920 Census of 1920U.S. population: 105,710,620

1920 The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified.