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

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

1776: Independence from Britain 1788: Constitution adopted : George Washington : James Monroe : Abraham Lincoln & Civil War : Reconstruction of the South 1954: Supreme Court upholds public school integration 1960s: Major civil rights & voting rights laws : Ronald Reagan : George W, Bush 2009-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

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