Six blacks were killed. The Atlanta Compromise. The National Baptist Convention. One hundred and thirteen black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1895. 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson.
Black women organize.
McKinley elected president. George Washington Carver. George Washington Carver was appointed director of agricultural research at Tuskegee Institute. His work advanced peanut, sweet potato, and soybean farming. Seventy-eight black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1896.