> CHRONOLOGY

1896

  • Plessy v. Ferguson decided.

1900

  • Socialist Party founded.

1905

  • Industrial Workers of the World founded.

1906

  • Atlanta race riot kills several hundred blacks.

1909

  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People formed.

1913

  • Suffragists march in Washington, D.C.

1916

  • Margaret Sanger opens first U.S. birth control clinic.