Timeline

1890–1899 ∼ Drawing Color Lines

Dawes Act calls for a redistribution of Indian reservation land (1887) / Jim Crow laws upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) / Chinese immigration banned except for diplomats, students and merchants (1900)

MILESTONES: Great economic recession (1893) • Spanish-American War (1898) • U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines (1898–1902)

1900–1919 ∼ Progressive Era

W.E.B. Du Bois opposes racial discrimination in The Souls of Color Folk (1903) / Seven thousand Japanese plantation workers in Hawaii stage a four-month long strike (1909) / National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded (1909) / Eugenics movement declares that one’s destiny is determined by one’s genes (1910s) / Standardized tests developed to determine racial intelligence (1910s) / Jack Johnson becomes first African American heavyweight boxing champion (1910) / The only foreign born residents of the U.S. ineligible for citizenship are Asians (1913) / Race riots erupt in St. Louis, Chicago and Washington, D...