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.

MidwestIllinoisIndianaMichiganMinnesotaMissouriOhioWisconsin

SouthwestArizonaTexas

WestCaliforniaColoradoOregonWashington

SouthAlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaKentuckyLouisianaMississippiNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaTennesseeVirginia

NortheastConnecticutMarylandNew JerseyNew YorkPennsylvaniaWashington, D.C. 

- African Proverb