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Black & White and the White House: Race, the Presidency and Barack Obama's Victory
Professor Eric Freedman9 December 2011
Mykolas Romeris University, [email protected]
George Washington’s Mount Vernon Plantation: House & Slave Quarters
1776: Independence from Britain1788: Constitution adopted1789-1797: George Washington1817-1825: James Monroe1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln & Civil War1865-1877: Reconstruction of the South1954: Supreme Court upholds public school integration1960s: Major civil rights & voting rights laws1981-1989: Ronald Reagan2001-2009: George W, Bush2009-present: Barack Obama
Timeline
From George Washington to George W. Bush
Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Declaration of Independence, 1776
James Monroe’s Oak Hill Plantation: House & Slave Quarters
James Monroe’s Slave Ownership
• 1774: 1• 1790 (elected to the U.S. Senate): 9• 1799 (became governor of Virginia): 21• 1810 (member of the Virginia Assembly): 49• 1820 (reelected president): 25• 1830 (after his presidency): 70
O Oak Hill Plantation
Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
North & South: U.S. Civil War
The Emancipation Proclamation
John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963
Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989
Eureka College Football Team
George W. Bush, 2001-2009
McKinley Assassinated
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton & John Edwards 2008
Barack Obama & John McCain Debate, 2008
P.B.S. Pinchback Governor of Louisiana
9 December 1872-13 January 1873
