1. Black & White and the White House: Race, the Presidency and Barack Obama's Victory Professor Eric Freedman 9 December 2011 Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius freedma5@msu.edu

2. George Washington’s Mount Vernon Plantation: House & Slave Quarters

3. 1776: Independence from Britain 1788: Constitution adopted 1789-1797: George Washington 1817-1825: James Monroe 1861-1865: Abraham Lincoln & Civil War 1865-1877: Reconstruction of the South 1954: Supreme Court upholds public school integration 1960s: Major civil rights & voting rights laws 1981-1989: Ronald Reagan 2001-2009: George W, Bush 2009-present: Barack Obama Timeline

5. From George Washington to George W. Bush

6. 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

7. James Monroe’s Oak Hill Plantation: House & Slave Quarters

8. 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

9. Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865

10. North & South: U.S. Civil War

11. The Emancipation Proclamation

12. John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963

13. Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989

14. Eureka College Football Team

15. George W. Bush, 2001-2009

16. McKinley Assassinated

18. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton & John Edwards 2008

19. Barack Obama & John McCain Debate, 2008

21. P.B.S. Pinchback Governor of Louisiana 9 December 1872-13 January 1873