See more info. The key moments of the Jim Crow era impacted all of the United States. Certain events, such as anti-black riots, affected African Americans more drastically than other people; other developments, such as wars involving the American military, were universal. But universal events did not result in universal experiences. The following articles assess many of the most important events of Jim Crow America. The Emancipation Proclamation Freedmen's Bureau Ku Klux Klan Reconstruction Fourteenth Amendment Enforcement Acts Civil Rights Act Passed Election of 1876 Founding of Tuskegee Civil Rights Act Overturned Ida B. Wells Flees Memphis Atlanta Compromise Speech Plessy v. Ferguson Spanish American War Williams v. Mississippi Wilmington Riot The Birth of the Blues The Great Migration The Souls of Black Folk Niagara Movement Atlanta Riot Brownsville Affair NAACP The Crisis Government Segregation The Birth of a Nation World War I The Red Summer The Harlem Renaissance Tulsa Riot Moore v. Dempsey Fisk Protest The Great Depression Scottsboro Case Gaines v. Canada March on Washington World War II Smith v. Allright Morgan v. Virginia Jackie Robinson Truman Supports Civil Rights Brown v. Board of Education

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