100 Years of Human Rights in the U.S.

In 1903, epileptics, professional beggars, and anarchists added to list of those excluded from entry: convicts, prostitutes, “coolies,” lunatics, idiots, and those unable to take care of themselves.

W.E.B. DuBois and others meet in Niagara Falls in 1905, leading to creation of the NAACP.

Jim Crow laws codify segregation.

In 1906, International Typographical Union successfully strikes for an 8-hour day. Two years later, women garment workers strike in New York for better wages and working conditions in the Uprising of the 20,000. More than 300 shops eventually sign union contracts.

"Imbeciles, the feeble-minded, tuberculars, persons with physical or mental defects," and those under 16 without parents excluded from entry as of 1907.