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 |
1970 AD – 1995 AD
1970
AD: An African Peoples Conference in Atlanta, designed as a forum
for discussing national and international Black pride, draws over 2,000
delegates from groups in the United states, Africa, the Caribbean, South
America and Australia. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
announces that 61% of African American students and 65.5% of Caucasian
students are attending segregated schools. Governors of four southern
states (Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana) vow to fight any order
to bus public school students to achieve integration.
1971 AD: After the longest running trial in New York
City history (9 months), 13 Black Panthers are acquitted of 156 conspiracy
charges relating to the bombing of police stations and department stores.
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that busing students is a constitutionally
valid means of achieving the integration of public schools.
1972 AD: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the death
penalty is unconstitutional. The decision has a race-related dimension
since more than half of the 600 convicts on death row are African Americans.
Federal health officials reveal that African Americans were used as test
subjects in a 40-year study of syphilis.
1973 AD: The National Black Network, America’s
first African American-owned radio news network, begins broadcasting to
40 affiliates nationwide.
1974 AD: The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
approves plans submitted by Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma for the desegregation of
their university systems.
1976 AD: College enrollment among African Americans has
risen from 282, 00 in 1966 to 1,062,000.
1979 AD: The Small Business Administration publishes
a study revealing that one out of every five recipients of federal aid
for minority –owned businesses is, in fact, a front for a Caucasian-owned
business.
1982 AD: A 10 year review of national tests to measure
academic achievement in the public schools shows that African American
students have achieved an overall 12% increase in average scores, compared
with an overall 5% increase among Caucasian students.
1983 AD: At the University of Mississippi, African American students
complain about the widespread display of the Confederate flag, the singing
of "Dixie" at the athletic games, and the "Rebels"
nickname. The administration agrees to discontinue using the confederate
flag as a "semi-official" symbol. But it refuses to disallow
the singing of "Dixie," the "Rebels" nickname or the
"spontaneous and individual" waving of the Confederate flag
on campus or at school related events.
1985 AD: Tony Brown, syndicated columnist on African
American issues, and host of Tony Brown’s Journal, creates the Buy
Freedom Campaign to assist African American businesses. Noting that 95%
of African American consumer spending goes to non-African American firms
and professionals.
1990 AD: Namibia, (Africa) gains its independence.
1986 AD: According to the American council on Higher Education,
the number of African American men enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities
has steadily declined in the past decade, from 470,000 in 1976 to 436,000
in 1986.
1990 AD: Nelson Mandela is released from a South African prison
after over a quarter of a century in jail. Eight African Americans, participate
with 130 other delegates from the Western Hemisphere, Europe and Africa
in the first international Black "think tank," the Institute
of Black Peoples, held in Burkina Faso.
1992 AD: A nationwide survey of 7.8 million mortgages
finds that over 33% of African American applicants are rejected compared
with only 17% of Caucasians with comparable income. According to the U.S.
Census bureau, African Americans own a disproportionately low percentage
of U.S. businesses –just 3%.
1993 AD: President Clinton appoints African Americans
to several cabinet positions. For the first time since its creation, all
50 states observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on the third Monday in January.
1994 AD: Nelson Mandela becomes the first Black President
of South Africa.