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African Americans (1901 Booker T. Washington autobiography, Up from…

- - - - 1905
        Nashville African Americans boycott streetcars to protest racial segregation.
        
        1906
        The Atlanta Race Riot on Sept. 22-24 produces 12 casualties.
        
        1907
        Alain Locke of Philadelphia a Harvard graduate become first African American Rhodes Scholar.
        
        1908
        On August 14, the Springfield Race Riot breaks out in Springfield, Illinois. Two blacks and four whites are killed. First major riot in a Northern city in nearly half a century.
        
        1909
        The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is formed on February 12 in New York City, partly in response to the Springfield Riot.
        
        1910
        Census of 1910: U.S. population: 93,402,151, Black population: 9,827,763
        
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