1900 |
American League established. |
1900 |
North Carolinian, George White, proposes the first Congressional attempt to make lynching a federal crime. It fails. When George White’s term ends the next year, he becomes last black Congressman until 1928. |
1900 |
The Cuban League permits black ballplayers, and Hall of Famers Cristóbal Torriente and José Méndez solidify the connection between Latin and Black baseball twenty years later. |
1901 |
Booker T. Washington, former slave and author of Up from Slavery, is 1st African American invited to the White House. |
1901 |
Cleveland’s Nap Lajoie hits for record .426 batting average, winning the American League’s first Triple Crown. |
1903 |
The Wright Brothers make their first flight in Kitty Hawk. |
1903 |
Henry Ford forms Ford Motor Company. |
1903 |
The Boston Pilgrims defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series. |
1903 |
W.E.B. DuBois publishes The Souls of Black Folk. |
1904 |
Ice Cream Cones are introduced at the World’s Fair in St. Louis. |
1905 |
The Chicago Defender becomes first big city Negro newspaper. |
1905 |
The Niagara Movement is begun by DuBois and William Monroe Trotter to fight for the enforcement of civil rights. |
1906 |
The Jungle is written by Upton Sinclair, revealing wretched working conditions and poor product quality. |
1906 |
The Chicago Cubs play to an incredible 116-32 record. |
1908 |
The first Model T is built and sold. |
1908 |
Jack Johnson becomes the first African-American Heavyweight Boxing Champion. |
1909 |
The Negro National Committee, soon to become the NAACP, has its first convention in New York. |
1909 |
Tobacco company removes Honus Wagner from their advertisements, creating first valuable baseball card. |