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Black History @ SWIC Library
Home: Black History Month
YOUNG ADULT NOVELS
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
1619 - Slavery in North America
1793 - Rise of the Cotton Industry
1831 - Nat Turner’s Revolt
1831 - Abolition & The Underground Railroad
1857 - Dred Scott Case
1859 - John Brown’s Raid and Clotilda
1861 - Civil War & Emancipation
1865 - The Post–Slavery South
1896 - Separate but Equal
1900 - Washington, Carver, Du Bois
1909 - NAACP
1910 - The Great Migration begins
1916 - Marcus Garvey & UNIA
1920 - Harlem Renaissance
1921 - Tulsa Race Massacre
1941 - African Americans in WWII
1947 - Jackie Robinson & Sports
1954 - Brown v. Board of Education
1955 - Emmett Till
1955 - Rosa Parks & The Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957 - Central High School Integrated
1960 - Sit–in Movement & SNCC
1961 - CORE and Freedom Rides
1962 - Integration of Ole Miss
1963 - Birmingham Church Bombing
1963 - “I Have a Dream” & The March on Washington
1964 - Civil Rights Act
1964 - Freedom Summer & “Mississippi Burning” Murders
1965 - Selma to Montgomery March
1965 - Malcolm X Shot to Death
1965 - Voting Rights Act
1960s - The Rise of Black Power
1968 - Fair Housing Act
1968 - MLK Assassination
1972 - Shirley Chisholm Runs for President
1978 - The Bakke Decision & Affirmative Action
1984 - Jesse Jackson Galvanizes Black Voters
1986 - Oprah Winfrey Launches Syndicated Talk Show
1992 - Los Angeles Riots
1995 - Million Man March
2001 - Powell; 2005 Rice - Secretary of State
2008 - Barack Obama becomes 44th U.S. President
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Million Man March, 1995 - Newly Added Items
