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Jazz and the civil rights

...... The timeline chronicling the birth of the civil rights movement began with the death of another social institutionslavery. For this reason, one can list the beginning of the civil rights movement as 1863, when the emancipation proclamation was signed, or as 1864, when the Civil War ended. Some may even place the beginning of the movement with the beginning of the Underground Railroad. While African-Americans and their advocates had been rallying for their freedom throughout the 1860s, the emancipation proclamation and the end to the civil war did not guarantee them equal rights. In fact, many former slaves remained employed in their masters plantations for little or know money; some were not even informed of the action that freed them. With the Civil Rights Act of 1866, congress attempted to insure African-Americans of the same right in every State and Territory in the United States (The Civil Rights Act). In 1900, one of the first African-American congressional representatives George H. White introduced an anti-lynching law that was never ratified and no similar law was ever re-introduced (African-Americans in the Twentieth Century). Regardless of these acts, and other attempts to insure the rights of African Americans, they continually faced persecution