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14th Amendment to the Constitution Was Ratified ___Did blacks (and women) get the vote from this 1868 amendment? Find out here. - Illustrated - From the Library of Congress - http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_revised_1.html 

40 Acres and a Mule ___An explanation of an 1865 Special Military Order No. 15 and the myth which grew around it when the act was reversed by President Andrew Johnson. - Text only - From Emerging Minds, Inc., by Gerene L. Freeman - http://www.emergingminds.org/magazine/content/item/1303 

An Act Declaring the Negro, Mulatto, and Indian slaves Within This Dominion, To Be Real Estate ___The full text of this Act, passed in Virginia, 1805. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/vact1705.htm 

An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves ___The full text of this 1807 legislation. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group -
http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/act1807.htm 

Appeal of the Independent Democrats ___In 1854 a group known as the Independent Democrats released this appeal which argues against the repeal of an a law which prohibited the institution of slavery in the Nebraska Territory. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/demappeal.htm 

A Bill Concerning Slaves ___The full text of legislation put forward by Thomas Jefferson in 1779. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group -
http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/billconcernslaves.htm 

Black Codes ___"These were laws made in the South after the Civil War that were meant to keep blacks in a segregated, inferior position." - Text only - From the Brazoria County Historical Museum - http://www.bchm.org/wrr/recon/p10.html 

The Black Code of Louisiana ___In 1724, France's King Louis enacted legislation concerning his Louisiana colony. - - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/lublkcodes.htm 
 
Black Codes of Louisiana ___Full text of this 1865 legislation. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/bcodesla.htm 

Black Laws of Ohio ___Full text of this 1804 legislation. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/bcodesoh.htm 

The Black Panther Party, Platform and Program ___Here's the full text of the Black Panthers' ten-article program. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/panther.htm 

Booker T ___"Booker T. Washington gave this speech to white business leaders gathered at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta in 1895." [An excerpt.] - Text only - From Thomas A. Castillo - http://www.wam.umd.edu/~tcast/documents157/btwatlanta.htm 

Bush and Blacks ___An article from the summer of 2004 which discusses Bush's proposed federally funded voucher program for minority children in DC. - Text only - By Charles Upton Sahm - http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_07_21_04cs.html 
 
The Civil Rights Act of 1866___Full text of this 1804 legislation. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/crts1866.htm  

The Civil Rights Act of 1964___This Civil Rights Act is much longer and more comprehensive than that of 1866. Read the full text here. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/act1964.htm

Civil Rights Laws and Legislation Since 1945___Click on the underlined text in this interesting article to access additional information about the topic at hand. - Text only - From World Book - http://tinyurl.com/3wcbb 

The Constitution of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States ___"The American Colonization Society was founded in the City of Washington in December 1816 for the purpose of colonizing the free people of color as an alternative to emancipation in the United States." This is the text of its constitution. There is a link to further information at the bottom of the page. Click on the red/blue ball to access it. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/acscon.htm 

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Liberia ___"Adopted by the Board of Directors of the American Colonization Society, January 5, 1839. The American Colonization Society hereby grants to the colonies or settlements in Liberia, on the western coast of Africa, under its care, the following Constitution..." - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/libcon.htm 

The Crittenden Compromise ___This is the text of proposed legislation which was an "attempt to solve the slavery question peacefully. In December of 1860, Senator John J. Crittenden of Kentucky, backed by the National Union Party, introduced a proposal to Congress which would have confirmed the free-and-slave state boundary set by the Missouri Compromise, allowed slave trading in the District of Columbia to continue, prohibited the importation of slaves from Africa, and slightly modified the Fugitive Slave Law." It was defeated in both the House and the Senate. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group -
http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/critcomp.htm 

The Declaration of Independence ___Food for thought -- Thomas Jefferson penned a clause which never appeared in the final draft of the Declaration of Independence. You can read that clause here and learn why it was omitted. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group -
http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/doi.htm 

Dred Scott ___"Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later... his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court... The court decided that all people of African ancestry -- slaves as well as those who were free -- could never become citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court [and] that the federal government did not have the power to prohibit slavery in its territories. Scott, needless to say, remained a slave." His story is here, followed by links to related information. - Illustrated - From PBS -
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html 

The Dred Scott Case___"... the pleadings from the original case as well as the court opinion as written by Chief Justice Roger Brook Taney. Notes on the Missouri Compromise are included for clarity." - Text only - From The Digital Development Group -
http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/dscott.htm 

Emancipation in the District of Columbia___Abraham Lincoln's short remarks on the passing of this legislation. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/dcemancp.htm 

The Emancipation Proclamation___"More than any other single statement, this proclamation by Abraham Lincoln can be said to have brought about the end of slavery." - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.bchm.org/wrr/recon/p10.html 

Executive Order 10730___In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, issued an order intended to end segregation in little Rock, Arkansas' Central High School. You can read the order's full text here. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group -
http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/eo10730.htm 

The Free Colored People of North Carolina ___This article was written in 1902 and discusses such things as whether slavery would have died out on its own if the Civil War had never occurred and the occupational situation of blacks in the later half of the 19th century. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/cwcnc.htm 

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850___Full text of this legislation. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/act1850.htm

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854___The full text of this legislation. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/kans_neb.htm 

The Ku Klux Klan ___Text outlining the principles and organization of the Ku Klux Klan, dated 1865. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group -
http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/kkk.htm 

Organization of Afro-American Unity ___Malcolm X was the founder of this organization. Here you can read the full text of its 'basic unity program'. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/oaau.htm

Origin of "Jim Crow" ___"Jim Crow laws, named for the minstrel show character, were late-19th-century statutes passed by the legislatures of the Southern states that created a racial caste system in the American South." - Text only - From The Digital Development Group -
http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/jcrow.htm 

Original Resolution ___The full text of this California Board of Education resolution which recognizes Ebonics as a valid language. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/ebonres.htm 

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction ___Read the full text of Abraham Lincoln' 1863 proclamation. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/reconstruc.htm 

Race-based Legislation ___This article discusses the situation in which Northern state blacks found themselves in the first half of the nineteenth century. "... they were no longer slaves, neither were they free." - Text only - From PBS - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2957.html 

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow___"... explores segregation from the end of the Civil War to the dawn of the modern civil rights movement." There are pages of interactive maps (require Flash 5 plug-in) and tools and activities, plus a teachers' section. - Illustrated - From the Educational Broadcasting Corporation - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/  

The Running of Mason and Dixon's Line ___Fourteen commissioners spent the years 1763-1767 creating a boundary line. You'll find their report here. "The piece is significant as showing the settlement of one of the many boundary controversies, and also as the record of a line which later divided free from slave states." - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/masondixon.htm 

A Sharecrop Contract ___What you'll find here is a typical agreement signed by landlords and those who rented land from them. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/sharecrop.htm 

Slave Codes of the State of Georgia ___Full text of this 1848 legislation. - Text only - From The Digital Development Group - http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/geocodes.htm 
 

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