June 1892

After being exiled from Memphis, Ida B. Wells published her first extended anti-lynching analysis in the New York Age on June 25, 1892, with T. Thomas Fortune printing 10,000 copies for distribution across the country. This article, later expanded into Southern Horrors, launched the organized anti-lynching movement. Black women's clubs in New York and Boston raised money to fund Wells's campaign, marking the beginning of organized Black women's civil rights activism.

After exile from Memphis, Wells published her first extended anti-lynching analysis in the New York Age on June 25, 1892, with 10,000 copies distributed nationally. Black women's clubs in New York and Boston raised money to fund her campaign, marking the beginning of organized Black women's civil rights activism.

Homer Plessy purchases a first-class ticket on the East Louisiana Railroad and sits in the white car. Per the Citizens' Committee plan, a private detective hired by the railroad identifies him as one-eighth Black and has him arrested. Judge John Howard Ferguson rules the Separate Car Act constitutional as applied to intrastate travel. The case begins its journey to the Supreme Court as Plessy v. Ferguson.

Plessy purchases a first-class ticket on the East Louisiana Railroad and sits in the white car. A private detective identifies him as one-eighth Black and has him arrested. Judge John Ferguson rules the Separate Car Act constitutional for intrastate travel. The case begins its path to the Supreme Court as Plessy v. Ferguson.