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

1963

March on Washington

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