Wilson is appointed full professor at Princeton University.
Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives, a startling
book of photographs and essays exploring the social conditions of those living
in poverty.
James Naismith introduces the game of basketball.
Colonel Edward House, who will later become Wilsonís closest
advisor, helps re-elect Texas governor James Hogg. Governor Hogg gives House
the title ìColonel.î
May 10: Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on strike, and
American Railroad Union leader Eugene Debs orders his railway workers to
boycott trains with Pullman cars, shutting down the railroads.
The Sino-Japanese War begins.
Booker T. Washington makes his Atlanta Compromise speech,
in which he accepts Jim Crow laws and the exclusion of blacks from political
power in return for education and job training.
Russian Marxist Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is arrested after
distributing illegal literature.
May 18: The Supreme Court decides in Plessy v. Ferguson
that the treatment of blacks as "separate but equal" meets Fourteenth Amendment
guarantees, giving legal sanction to Jim Crow segregation laws.
William Jennings Bryan receives the presidential nomination
from both the Democrats and the Populists, but loses the election to Republican
William McKinley.
April 25:The Spanish-American War begins two months after the
U.S. battleship Maine is blown up in Cuba's Havana harbor, killing 258 soldiers
and two officers.
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