Multicultural U.S History Timeline™ – 1900-1919 (African-Americans)

Mary McLeod Bethune opens schools for Negro Girls, Daytona FL.

57 Blacks lynched.

In the height of the Jim Crow era, John Arthur "Jack" Johnson becomes the first African American world heavy weight boxing champion and held the title until 1915.

Ida B.Wells arrived in Washington D.C. with 60 other black women to march with the IL delegation of the National American Women Suffrage Association. They were told to march at the end of the parade, not with the IL delegation, so as not to upset the Southern delegates. Ida B. Wells feigned agreement, then joined the IL delegation from the crowd as it passed by with the support of two white co-suffragists.

Nearly 10,000 African Americans and their supporters march down Manhattan’s 5^th Ave in a silent “anti-lynching” parade organized by NAACP. First organized civil rights demonstration in the 20^th century.