Brad and Jackson Black History Month

Black History

Period: Jan 1, 1850 to Jan 1, 2010

Sojourner Truth gives the "Ain't I a Woman" Speech

Jan 1, 1851

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/truth/cover.html

Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation

Jan 1, 1863

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Abraham_Lincoln_November_1863.jpg/220px-Abraham_Lincoln_November_1863.jpg

Paul Lawrence Dunbar publishs Lyrics of a Lowly Life

Jan 1, 1896

http://www.biography.com/people/paul-laurence-dunbar-9281053

NAACP was founded.

Jan 1, 1909

http://coast-usa.blogspot.com/2011/09/naacp-and-smitherman-do-it-again.html

The First Black Tuskegee Airman Training begun

Jan 1, 1941

http://www.usmilitaryhalloffame.org/Nomination/2012/TuskegeeAirmen.aspx

Jackie Robinson is the first African American to play NBA Baseball

Jan 1, 1947

http://usadailly.blogspot.com/2012/04/nats-pay-tribute-to-jackie-robinson-day.html

Rosa Parks stays in her bus seat.

Jan 1, 1955

http://www.esacademic.com/dic.nsf/eswiki/1024575

Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" Speech

Jan 1, 1963

http://www.sherylfranklin.com/holidays/mlking.html

Thurgood Marshall becomes a Supreme Court Judge

Jan 1, 1967

http://www.sherylfranklin.com/holidays/mlking.html

Barrack Obama was elected as President, First Black President

Nov 4, 2008

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/uspresidents/ig/Images-of-US-Presidents/Barack-Obama.htm