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History of Black Achievement In America

This original, nine-part series documents Black Achievement in American history, its defining role in the growth of the country, and its influence on current events. Presented by James Avery, the series highlights the many contributions of Black Americans that have influenced our culture, enriched our society with their achievements, and shaped the history of the United States. It's one of the least known stories in American history. It is the story of black achievement and accomplishment. Against all odds, American blacks have built their own institutions: families, schools, churches and businesses. Against all odds, American blacks have created great art and science.... Fought heroically in every American war. Against all odds, black men and women have worked endlessly to secure their own freedom and equality. The untold Story of blacks in America is a 350-year saga of incredible achievements. This is that story.

History of Black Achievement In America  
  • Settling the New World and Founding the United States of America
    Friday, May 3
    11:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    1619-21: Blacks Arrive at Jamestown. 1705: Virginia General Assembly Passes the Slave Codes. 1762: Entrepreneur Samuel Fraunces Opens New York City's Most Cherished Revolutionary War Site: The Fraunces Tavern. 1770: Crispus Attucks and the Black Patriots.
  • Emergence of the Black Hero
    Friday, May 10
    11:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    1772: Chicago is Settled by Jean DuSable. 1776: Lemuel Haynes Helps Lay the Foundation for Abolition. 1791: The First Black Man of Science, Benjamin Banneker, Surveys Washington, D.C. 1821: African Grove Theatre Founded in New York. 1822: Denmark Vesey and the Slave Revolts. 1823: Legendary Mountain Man James Beckwourth Enters the Rockies. 1849: Harriet Tubman Uses Underground Railroad to Become Free.
  • The Fight for Freedom
    Friday, May 17
    11:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    1851: Sojourner Truth Delivers Famous 'Ain't I a Woman?' Speech. 1854: First Black University Founded: Lincoln University. 1855: Frederick Douglass Publishes My Bondage and My Freedom. 1857: Dred Scott Decision Helps Trigger the Civil War. 1863: Lincoln Signs Emancipation Proclamation. 1863: Black Regiment Storms Fort Wagner in the Civil War. 1865-69: 13th-14th-15th Amendments Establish Civil Rights for All.
  • Blacks Enter The Gilded Age
    Friday, May 24
    11:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    1875: Robert Smalls, Former Slave, Elected to House. 1878: The Black Cowboy and George McJunkin. 1881: Booker T. Washington Opens Tuskegee Institute. 1884: T. Thomas Fortune Prophesize the Long and Bitter Struggle for Equality. 1887: Granville T. Woods, Called the "Black Edison", Patents the Induction Telegraph System. 1893: Ida B. Wells-Barnett Crusades Against Black Lynching in America. 1896: Plessy v. Ferguson Case Upholds Segregation.
  • The Foundation for Equality
    Friday, May 31
    11:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    1904: Scott Joplin and Ma Rainey Initiate the Merger of Two Cultures. 1909: Matthew Henson Discovers the North Pole. 1909: W.E.B. DuBois Founds the NAACP. 1924: George Washington Carver Renaissance Man. 1925: Alain Locke Leads Harlem Renaissance. 1926: Satchel Paige Stars in the National Negro Baseball League.
  • Depression and War
    Friday, June 7
    11:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    1935: Mary McLeod Bethune: American Woman of the 20th Century. 1936-38: Jesse Owens And Joe Louis Debunk Hitler's Claim of Aryan Superiority. 1939: Hattie McDaniel Wins the Oscar. 1940: First Black General, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., is Stepping Stone to Desegregation of U.S. Army. 1943: Duke Ellington's Band Performs Black, Brown and Beige at Carnegie Hall.
  • Civil Rights
    Friday, June 14
    11:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    1950: Ralph Bunche Wins the Nobel Peace Prize. 1950: Gwendolyn Brooks Becomes the First Black Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. 1954: Brown v.Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. 1955: Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat to a White Passenger on a Montgomery Bus. 1956: Althea Gibson, First Black Woman To Win a Tennis Grand Slam Event. 1959: Lorraine Hansberry's Play A Raisin in the Sun is Produced. 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers His I Have a Dream Speech.
  • A New Age
    Friday, June 21
    11:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    1967: Muhammad Ali Refuses Induction into the U.S. Army on Religious Grounds. 1967: Thurgood Marshall, First Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice. 1977: Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American FamilyAppears on TV. 2001: Colin Powell Appointed Secretary of State. 2004: Neil deGrasse Tyson Becomes Astrophysics' Superstar.

 

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