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1914  Marcus Garvey founds the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Jamaica.

1915  South Carolina passes a law to segregate entrances and working facilities in factories.

1915  D.W. Griffiths' film, Birth of a Nation, celebrates the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and portrays African Americans in a demeaning way.

1915  Guinn v. United States. U.S. Supreme Court rules against Oklahoma's "grandfather clause" voting restriction on African Americans.

1916  The NAACP establishes an anti-lynching committee.

1917  The United States enters World War I. 365,000 African Americans are drafted - 200,000 serve in Europe.

1919  "Red Summer." Race violence occurrs across the country, as African American servicemen return from World War I.

1921  Race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma results in over $1 million worth of property damage and the deaths of at least 30 people.

1922  Ozawa v. United States.  U.S. Supreme Court rules that Japanese are ineligible for U.S. citizenship.

1923  Rosewood, Florida, a mainly African American community, is completely destroyed by a white mob which murders many residents.

1924  Congress grants citizenship to all American Indians.

1926  Corrigan v. Buckley. U.S. Supreme Court upholds the legality of racially restrictive covenants between homeowners.