Battle Creek Branch of the NAACP

		Take a walk through  history

• Watch President Obama's Inaugural Address or Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech
• Learn the role of individuals like Cesar Chavez, Ruby Dee and more players of the civil rights movement
• Discover the lesser known heroes and events that shaped our world that have gone largely overlooked by history
• See the broad geographic reach of historic milestones, like Brown vs. Board of Education
• Check out our specially-produced videos featuring notable celebrities like Laurence Fishburne, Tatyana Ali, and Chandra Wilson

We trust that the NAACP Interactive Historical Timeline will provide a deeper understanding of the people who sacrificed and triumphed to move civil rights forward and build one nation versus one divided by race.

Please take a look around, explore, discover and learn at the NAACP Interactive Historical Timeline.

Sincerely,

Benjamin Todd Jealous President and CEO NAACP

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Newly-elected NAACP President and CEO

Benjamin Todd Jealous served as President of the Rosenberg Foundation- a private independent institution that supports advocacy efforts to make significant improvements in the lives of California's working families and recent immigrants. He was the fourth person to hold the position since the Foundation was founded in 1935.

Mr. Jealous was Director of US Human Rights Program at Amnesty International. While there he led its efforts to pass federal legislation against prison rape, rebuild public consensus against racial profiling in the wake of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, and expose the widespread sentencing of children to life without the possibility of parole. He is the lead author of the 2004 report Threat and Humiliation: Racial Profiling, Domestic Security, and Human Rights in the United States, the release of which received coverage by major media outlets in most states and on six continents.

Formerly, Mr. Jealous served as Executive Director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)-a federation of more than 200 black community newspapers. While at the NNPA, he rebuilt its 90-year old national news service and spearheaded the creation of a proprietary software system that enabled dozens of local papers to begin publishing online.

During the mid 1990s, Mr. Jealous served as Managing Editor of the Jackson Advocate, Mississippi's oldest black newspaper. His reporting for the frequently-firebombed weekly was credited with exposing corruption amongst high-ranking officials at the state prison in Parchman, and helping to acquit a small farmer who had been wrongfully and maliciously accused of arson.
He initially came to Mississippi as a field organizer on a successful campaign to stop the state's plan to close two of its three public historically black universities, and convert one of them into a prison.

Mr. Jealous began his career as an organizer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund working on issues of healthcare access.

He was born, raised, and attended public and parochial schools in Monterey County, California. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Columbia University and a master's degree in comparative social research from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Mr. Jealous is a member of the Asia Society. He is a board member of Northern California Grantmakers and the California Council for the Humanities the creation of a proprietary software system that enables dozens of local papers to begin publishing online.

During the mid 1990's, Mr. Jealous served as Managing Editor of the Jackson Advocate, Mississippi's oldest black newspaper.  His reporting for the frequently-firebombed weekly was credited with exposing corruption amongst high-ranking officials at the state prison in Parchman, and helping to acquit a small farmer who had been wrongfully and maliciously accused of arson.

He initially came to Mississippu as a field organizer on a sucessful campaign to stop the state's plan to close two of its three public historically black universities and convert one of them into a prison.

Mr. Jealous began his career as an organizeer with the NAACP Legal Defense  Fund working on issues of healthcare access.

He was born, raised, and attended public and parochial schools in Monterey County, California. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Columbia University and a master's degree in comparative social research from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Mr. Jealous is a member of the Asia Society. He is a board member of Northern California Grantmakers and the California Council for the Humanities.