Settling the New World and Founding the United States of America
UEN-TV 9.1
Past Show Times:
11:00 AM on May 3, 2024
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
UEN-TV 9.1
Upcoming Show Times:
11:00 AM on May 10, 2024
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
UEN-TV 9.1
Upcoming Show Times:
11:00 AM on May 17, 2024
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
UEN-TV 9.1
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11:00 AM on May 24, 2024
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
UEN-TV 9.1
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11:00 AM on May 31, 2024
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
UEN-TV 9.1
Upcoming Show Times:
11:00 AM on Jun 7, 2024
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
UEN-TV 9.1
Upcoming Show Times:
11:00 AM on Jun 14, 2024
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
UEN-TV 9.1
Upcoming Show Times:
11:00 AM on Jun 21, 2024
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.