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View Historical Documents that changed history from the first arrival of African Americans in 1619 through Slavery and the Civil Rights Era
An act declaring the Negro, Mulatto, and Indian slaves within this dominion, to be real estate. (1705)
A Bill Concerning Slaves by Thomas Jefferson (1779)
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
State v. Boon (1801)
Black Laws of Ohio 1804
An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves (1807)
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Henry Carey Excerpts from: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign (1853)
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
The Dred Scott Case (1854)
The Crittenden Compromise (1860)
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863)
The Emancipation Proclamation (1864)
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
"40 Acres and a Mule" (1865)
Adjt. and Insp. General's Office, General Orders, No. 14. (1865)
Louisiana Black Codes, an Act (1865)
Black Codes of Mississippi (1865)
The Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Ku Klux Klan (1868)
PACE v. STATE OF ALABAMA, 106 U.S. 583 (1883)
Atlanta Compromise (1895)
PLESSY v. FERGUSON 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
BUCHANAN v. WARLEY , 245 U.S. 60 No. 33. (1917)
GROVEY v. TOWNSEND, 295 U.S. 45 No. 563. (1935)
Documents Relating to African Americans in the Armed Services (1942-1948)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10730 (1957)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Organization of Afro-American Unity (1965)
Black Panther Party Platform and Program (1966)
The Constitution of the American Society
Missouri Compromise
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