DiversityBlack History Month
BY
Janette De La Rosa Ducut, Ed.D.Training and Development Officer
Slavery
Cotton is King
Nat Turner’s Revolt
Civil War
“Separate but Equal”
Post Slavery South
Jackie Robinson
Brownvs.
Board of Education
Emmett Till
Bus boycott
Little Rock Nine
Sit-in movement
1960
Freedom Rides
1961
Ole’ Miss
1962
1964
Civil Rights Act
1965
Selma toMontgomery
Malcolm X assassinated
Voting Rights Act
1965
Black Power
King assassinated
1968
University of Californiavs.
Bakke
1978
South Central riots
Colin Powell
Chief Mike Lane
Obama
Summary
Black History has made its mark in:
• Economics• Education (especially UC history)• Civil War• Voting• Civil rights• Housing• U.S. Presidency• …each one of us
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