| 1974
- 1976 |
Julieanna L. Richardson conducts
audiocassette interviews of Butterfly McQueen (Gone With the Wind),
Lee Whipple (then, the oldest living black actor), those involved
with the Harlem Renaissance and those who also knew author/writer
Langston Hughes.
|
| 1992
|
Julieanna Richardson is hired by Tanqueray to bring Tanqueray's
Black History calendar to life. This includes 16 interviews of
notable African Americans, such as Jewel LaFontant MANkarious,
Congressman Charles Hayes, Etta Moten Barnett and Congressman
Bobby Rush.
Tanqueray tables the project and the stories are boxed and stored
away.
|
| April
- July, 1999 |
The Tanqueray interviewees signs
releases for use in The HistoryMakers.
|
| July
1999 |
The HistoryMakers' due diligence
period begins.
|
| December
1999 |
 The HistoryMakers interviews its first HistoryMaker, radio executive
Barry Mayo.
 The HistoryMakers interviews State Democratic Leader Emil Jones,
Jr. Senator Jones is so impressed with The HistoryMakers that
he agrees to help secure funding for the initiative.
|
| February
2000 |
The HistoryMakers' radio series begins on WBBM-AM.
 Harry Belafonte agrees to come to Chicago for the national launch
of The HistoryMakers.
|
| March
2000 |
The HistoryMakers receives $200,000
in funding from the State of Illinois.
|
| April
2000 |
 The HistoryMakers begins its national
outreach by interviewing Julian Bond in Washington, D.C.
|
| May
2000 |
 Danny Glover agrees to interview
his friend and fellow actor/humanitarian Harry Belafonte as part
of The HistoryMakers' national launch.
|
| June
2000 |
 Legendary radio personality and "The Mayor of Bronzeville"
Herb Kent "The Cool Gent" agrees to serve as an advisor
for The HistoryMakers.
 Interviews begin for the State of Illinois, entitled Pioneers
in the Struggle. This project traces the history of African Americans
who have served in the Illinois General Assembly since 1877. This
important, but little known history, is to be documented in a
one hour TV documentary, interactive CD ROM and curriculum guide.
|
| July
2000 |
The HistoryMakers travels to Indianapolis
to interview former news reporter Barbara Boyd; William Mays of
Mays Chemical Company; musician and poet Carl Hines; Rev. Dr. Angelique
Walker Smith, Executive Director/Minister of the Church Federation
of Greater Indianapolis and co-host of the Odyssey Network program
"Odyssey Big Screen" and the legendary basketball player
Jerry Harkness.
|
| August
2000 |
The Art Institute of Chicago agrees to serve as the venue for
An Evening with Harry Belafonte.
The HistoryMakers interviews former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion
Barry.
The HistoryMakers holds its kick-off reception for An Evening
with Harry Belafonte.
|
| October
2000 |
The HistoryMakers receives funding
from the Illinois Humanities Council, the Chicago Community Trust
and the Joyce Foundation.
|
| November
2000 |
The National Launch of The HistoryMakers
kicks off with An Evening with Harry Belafonte. Over 1200 people
attend the event, describing the program as "riveting"
and "life changing".
|
| December
2000 |
70 interviews are completed for inclusion in The HistoryMakers'
archives.
The HistoryMakers travels to New York City to interview legendary
dancer Katherine Dunham and CEO & Publisher of Black Enterprise
Magazine Earl Graves, Sr.
|
| February
2001 |
The HistoryMakers premiers An Evening with Harry Belafonte at
the Chicago Cultural Center.
The HistoryMakers and the Chicago Cultural Center host Three
Artists, Three Lives, Three Stories. ABC 7 personality Bill Campbell
moderates a discussion among artists Dawoud Bey, Richard Hunt
and Allen Stringfellow.
The HistoryMakers travels to Boston, Massachusetts to interview
artist Allen Crite, museum director Barry Gaither, psychiatrist
Dr. Alvin Poussaint and sociologist Charles Willie.
The HistoryMakers travels to New York City to interview the Katherine
Dunham Dancers and Marie Christine Dunham-Pratt, Katherine Dunham's
daughter.
An Evening with Harry Belafonte airs on the A&E Network.
An Evening with Harry Belafonte airs on Network Chicago Channel
11.
|
| March
2001 |
The HistoryMakers travels to New
York City to interview Ossie Davis, Richmond McCoy, Gordon Parks,
Dr. Beny Primm, Susan Taylor and Glegg Watson.
|
| April
2001 |
The HistoryMakers travels to Washington, D.C. to interview Peggy
Cooper Cafritz, Congressman John Conyers, Jeff Donaldson, Marian
Wright Edelman, James Forman, Congressman John Lewis, Frank Ross
and Gus Savage.
Dionne Warwick agrees to be featured in The HistoryMakers 2001
fundraiser with Diahann Carroll as the interviewer.
|
| May
2001 |
The HistoryMakers interviews members of the Negro Baseball League:
Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, Henry Presswood, Alvin
Spearman, Bobby Robinson and Johnny Washington.
The HistoryMakers travels to Washington, D.C. to interview Maudine
Cooper, David Driskell, Walter Leonard, Dr. Julianne Malveaux,
Congresswoman Carrie Meek, Timothy Parker and Roger Wilkins.
|
| June
2001 |
The HistoryMakers travels to Los
Angeles to interview Lee Bailey, Leo Branton, Yvonne Braithwaite-Burke,
Reuben Cannon, Shirley Jones, Bernard Kinsey, Dr. George McKenna
III and Tavis Smiley.
|
| July
2001 |
The HistoryMakers travels to New York City to interview David
Dinkins, Dr. Richard Payne, Lloyd Richards and Mary Wilson.
The HistoryMakers hosts An Evening With Dionne Warwick kick-off
reception.
|
| September
2001 |
The HistoryMakers, in conjunction
with Senator Emil Jones, Jr., Governor George Ryan and Senator Mike
Madigan, hosts a TV screening and premiere of the Pioneers in the
Struggle television documentary, interactive CD-ROM and curriculum
guide at the James R. Thompson State of Illinois building.
|
| October
2001 |
The HistoryMakers, in collaboration
with the Field Museum and the DuSable Museum of African American
History, hosts Black and Red: The Little Known History of African
American and American Indian Heritages at the DuSable Museum of
African American History.
|
| November
2001 |
An Evening with Dionne Warwick
and a salute to the 2001 HistoryMakers is held at the Field Museum
on Thursday, November 15th.
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