About the history of the United States in 1881, first Jim Crow laws passed, Clara Barton founds the National Red Cross, James Garfield shot and killed, Chester A. Arthur becomes president. 1881 --Tennessee enacted 1st Jim Crow law segregating railroad coaches--this provided for "separate but equal" 1st-class coaches for blacks instead of no 1st class for blacks at all.

Historical Events for the Year 1881 25th January » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. 13th February » The feminist newspaper 'La Citoyenne' is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.

Nov 15 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh) Nov 19 A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine; Dec 3 Henry Morton Stanley founds Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) Dec 4 The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published; Dec 5 47th Congress (1881-83) convenes

01/07/2014 · President Ulysses S. Grant and the Reconstruction Era: United States History from 1866 - 1881 Important events in United States History during the presidency of Ulysses S Grant includes the Fifteenth Amendment, The Black Friday Scandal, Credit Mobilier Scandal, Whiskey Ring Scandal, Battle of Little Bighorn and the Belknap Bribery Scandal.

Years. 1881 in History. January 1. Dr. John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes. January 2. Camille Saint-Saens' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres. January 4.

May 21, 1881 - The American Red Cross names Clara Barton president, a post she would hold until 1904 through nineteen relief missions. July 2, 1881 - The 20th President of the United States, James A. Garfield, is shot by lawyer Charles J. Guiteau in the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, D.C.

Booker T. Washington opens the Tuskegee Institute [today's Tuskegee University] on July 4, 1881, in Tuskegee, AL. A gunfight breaks out near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ, on October 26, 1881, when the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday attempt to …