1876-1900: Rise of Industrial America
Highlights
When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed less than
8 percent of the African-American population lived in the
Northeast or Midwest. Migration from the South has long been
a significant feature of black history. An early exodus from
the South occurred between 1879 and 1881, when about 60,000
African-Americans moved into Kansas and others settled in
the Oklahoma Indian Territories in search of social and economic
freedom.
During the 1870s to the start of World War I, the period
when African American educator Booker T. Washington was gaining
prominence, was also a difficult time for African Americans.
This period has been called the "nadir" of black
history because so many gains earned after the Civil War
seemed lost by the time of World War I, and because racial
violence and lynching reached an all time high. However,
both the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National
Urban League (NUL) were founded
by blacks and whites during this time.
People, Places and Events
- Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson (1878-1949):
Invented a new way to tap
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (SCROLL TO SECOND ENTRY ON PAGE)
Tap
Dancer
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931): Journalist
and teacher
Ida
B. Wells-Barnett
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