LOCAL HISTORY
John Carter of 1839
Considered Flint's first Black Resident
"WHEN THEY GO LOW...YOU GO HIGH"
MICHELLE OBAMA
REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER SEAT ON A BUS
ROSA PARKS
PRESIDENT DWIGHT D EISENHOWER DEPLOYED FEDERAL TROOPS TO LITTLE ROCK ARKANSAS IN 1957
THEN GOVERNOR ORVAL FAUNUS CALLED NATIONAL GUARD TO BLOCK 9 STUDENTS FROM ENTERING HIGH SCHOOL A
15TH AMENDMENT IN 1870
ABLE TO VOTE
First African American Flint Mayor elected by popular vote
James Sharp 1984
I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH
MLK
WHO IS CONSIDERED THE MAN BEHIND BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Carter G. Woodson
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
HELP SLAVES TO FREEDOM
Thirteenth Amendment ratified on December 6, 1865.
SLAVERY ABOLISHED
First Hired by the Flint School System 1942
Lois F. VanZandt
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some time. We are the ones we've been waiting for."
Barack Obama
A formerly enslaved man who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS
FBI PUT WIRE TAPS ON MALCOLM X
TO MONITOR HIS ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT CLAIMS OF MILITANT AND ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case (NOTE THIS IS ORIGINAL SUPREME COURT RULING IN 1954)
DESEGREGATED SCHOOLS
Archie Parks 1931
First Black police officer in Flint
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
FREDERICK DOUGLAS
African American writer, teacher, sociologist and activist whose work transformed the way that the lives of Black citizens were seen in American society. And WROTE The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. DuBois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
REBELLION OF NAT TURNER
HE BELIEVED AN ECLIPSE OF THE SUN WAS A SIGN THAT IT WAS TIME TO RISE UP
CREATION OF A SET OF POLICIES AND PRACTICES WITHIN A GOVERMENT OR ORGANIZATION TO INCLUDE UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS IN EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
First Physician of 1919
Dr. John Wesley Moore - First Black Physician of Flint
"Imagine what a harmonious world could be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at."
Quincy Jones
FOUNDED Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (Now Tuskegee University) in 1881
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
2021 RIOTS IN MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA
GEORGE FLOYD DIED AFTER BEING HANDCUFFED AND PINNED TO THE GROUND BY DEREK CHAUVIN
Annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH