Thursday, December 2nd, 2010Presented by Phillip JacksonDanny Lackey
- John Henrik Clarke
1865-Civil War Ends13th Amendment
1877—Compromise;Reconstruction ends
1866—Civil Rights Act
1876-1965—Jim Crow Laws
1900—Pan African movement begins
1914-1919—WWI
1909—NAACP begins
1919-1923—Race Riots across U.S.A.
1920’s-1930’s—Harlem Renaissance
1954-1968—Modern Civil
Rights struggles
1981—New Jim Crow
Racist Sentencing
Laws
2008-2010—Open Society
Institute’s Campaign for
Black Male Achievement
1996—Million Man March
1980’s—Hip Hop Movement
1963—March on Washington
1996—African American Male National Council
1941-1945—WWII
1865—Civil War Ended
1865—Congress Ratified 13th Amendment to the Constitution
1866—Freedman’s Bureau Bill Enacted
1866—HBCU’s Founded
Artwork about Emancipation
1866—Civil Rights Act
1870—15th Amendment
1876—Jim Crow Laws Enacted by Southern States
1865-1877—Recontruction Period
1879—Great Migration
Black men voting after the Civil Rights Act
1900—Pan-African Movement
1905—Niagra Movement
1909—NAACP begins 1910—National Urban
League 1919-1923—Red
Summer Race Riots in the South and North
1920’s-1930’s—Harlem Renaissance
Newspaper Headline regarding Chicago Race Riots
…."once they let the black man get upon his person the brass letters U.S.; let him get an eagle on his button and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth which can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship in the U.S.“
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
1914-1919: World War I
1941-1945: World War II
1950-1953: Korean War
1965-1975: Vietnam War Black soldiers in World War I
1954 - Brown Versus Topeka Board of Education
1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955 - Emmet Till Murdered
1957 - Ghana becomes first independent Sub-Saharan Black African country
Emmet Till
1957 - Little Rock Schools Desegregate
1960 - Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-Ins
1961 - Freedom Rides Desegregate Interstate Bus Transportation
1963 - March on Washington
Little Rock School Desegregation
1964 - Mississippi Freedom Summer - Voter Registration
1964 - Organization of Afro-American Unity
1964-1968 - Riots and Civil Disturbances
1965 - Voting Rights Act
Black man practicing nonviolent resistance
1965 - Malcolm X Assassinated
1966 - Black Power Movement
1966 - Black Panther Party
1968 - Dr. King Assassinated
Malcolm X
1971—21st Century Foundation Established
1973—National Urban League published State of Black America
1970’s—Black Soldiers Returned from War
1981—New Jim Crow Racist Sentencing Laws
1980’s—Hip Hop Movement
New Jim Crow Racist Sentencing Laws
1984-1990—Birth of Gangsta Rap/ Thug Life
1992—National Task Force on African-American Males
1996—Million Man March
1996—African American Male National Council
Tupac Shakur
2002—Dellums Commission 2003—State of the African-
American Male Initiative 2004—Million Father March 2004—Black Male Commissions 2006—Black Men and Boys
Fund 2006—Ford Foundation’s Why
We Can’t Wait Report 2008-2010—Open Society
Institute’s Campaign for Black Male Achievement
One Chicago father joins fathers across the globe in
taking their children to school.
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- African Proverb