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1890's Zora Neale Hurtston Born in 1891 Supreme Court Rules on Plessy v Ferguson: 1896 1900-1920 Organization such

as The Niagara Movement and the National Urban League are formed promoting the political and social rights of black people 1930's 1931: Toni Morrison is born Hurston living in Haiti writes and published 'Their Eyes Were Watching God" 1940's 1945: Ebony magazine is founded 1947: Jackie Robinson plays baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers 1950's 1954: Brown v Board: Over turns 'seperate but equal' end segregation. 1959: Ray Charles seels a million copies of 'What I'd say' 1960's 1960: Sit- movement in colleges around America 1962-1965: Toni Morrison write 'The Bluest Eye' 1964: Martin Luther King awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1968: King Assisinated 1970's Toni Morrison publishes 'The Bluest Eye' 1980's 1981: Witney Houston becomes the first African American model to grace the cover of 'Seventeem' a popular girls magazine

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