Obama's campaign for the Presidency 2004-2009 Key Dates

1971

(Swann V Charlotte-Mecklenburg) Supreme courts ruled in favour of full desegregation of schools and specified busing children to other schools to help achieve this

1992

black Americans were better represented in the police force however made up over half imprisoned despite constituting 12% of the population

1/3 of black Americans continued to live in segregated and impoverished inner city ghettos which held lower life expectancies

1996

Obama Elected to Illinois state senate

2000

Obama lost illinois democratic primary elections for US House of Representatives

2004

Obama is Keynote speaker at the Democratic Party National convention

2004

Obama elected to US senate

2008

Obama won Democratic party presidential primaries

2008

ecenomic recession

2008

Obama elected president

2010

57% of black Americans living in the South