AFRICAN WORLD EXPLORATORY UNIVERSITY - A HISTORIC TIMELINE
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| 3.5
mil BC – 6000 BC |
5900
BC – 2000 BC |
1900
BC – 9AD |
10
AD – 1049 AD |
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| 1050
AD – 1699 AD |
1700
AD – 1899 AD |
1900
AD – 1969 AD |
1970
AD – 1995 AD |
1900 AD – 1969 AD
1901
AD: One of the first acts of the new Australian government has
been to pass a law restricting the immigration of non-Caucasians.
1903 AD: Britain’s consul in the Congo free State,
Roger Casement, is preparing an analysis of the barbarities inflicted
on Africans by the Belgian administration of King Leopold II. In South
Africa new politico-religious movements are emerging amongst the native
African migrant laborers. They have established native congresses and
churches. They associate themselves with the Pan-African movement in the
New World.
1909 AD: The National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP) is founded. There are 82 recorded lynchings.
1915 AD: The movie Birth of a Nation is released, depicting
African Americans in a very derogatory light.
1919 AD: In State v. Young, the supreme court decides
that African Americans should be admitted to juries. Over 25 major race
riots occur across the United states, leading James Weldon Johnson to
characterize the season as "Red Summer".
1945 AD: The NAACP sends a representative to the United
Nations conference to propose the abolition of colonialism throughout
the world.
1946 AD: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Morgan v. Commonwealth
of Virginia, rules that segregation in interstate bus travel is unconstitutional.
1948 AD: President Harry Truman calls upon Congress to pass civil
right’s legislation and signs an Executive Order calling for an
end to segregation and discrimination in the armed forces and all other
areas of federal employment.
1954 AD: The U.S. Supreme Court, in the landmark case
of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, rules that "separate but
equal" educational facilities are "inherently unequal"
and therefore segregation in public education is unconstitutional.
1955 AD: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a
Caucasian man and helps to trigger the formation of the Montgomery Improvement
association, which organizes a bus boycott. Martin Luther King, Jr. is
elected President of the association.
1957 AD: The Civil Right’s Act of 1957 protecting
the right to vote becomes law, but only after strong school integration
provisions are deleted. It is the first significant civil right’s
legislation since 1875. Over 25,000 people led by Martin Luther King,
Jr., gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, in a "Prayer
Pilgrimage" to demonstrate support for African American voting rights.
1959 AD: California passes legislation prohibiting discrimination
in public housing and overturning miscegenation laws. 1960 President Eisenhower
signs the 1960 Civil Right’s Act into law. It strengthens the 1957
act by making the federal government more responsible in cases of civil
right’s violations.
1963 AD: Over 250,000 participate in the March on Washington
at the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King gives his "I have
a Dream" speech.
1964 AD: Under heavy pressure from President Lyndon
Johnson, congress passes a Civil Rights Bill banning discrimination in
public accommodations, education, and employment.
1965 AD: On February 21st, Malcolm X is assassinated
at a rally in the Audubon Ballroom in New York. The most severe race-related
riots so far in U.S. history takes place in Watts, California over six
days.
1966 AD: Maulana Karenga creates the festival of Kwanza.
1968 AD: Martin Luther King is assassinated. According
to Fortune magazine, the African American consumer market in the U.S.
amounts to 30 billion a year. The U.S. Supreme Court orders all U.S. public
schools to draw up desegregation plans immediately. Thirteen years previously,
the court had ordered schools to do the same thing "with all deliberate
speed".
1969 AD: In Pittsburgh, several hundred African American
construction workers close five construction sites to protest discriminatory
hiring practices. Several hundred Caucasian workers stage a counter-protest.
The standoff is not resolved until U.S. Secretary of Labor George Schultz
intervenes with the sol-called Philadelphia Plan, requiring contractors
on federally funded projects to hire a certain percentage of African American
workers.