Many events in African American can't be listed by state, this page is designed to provide you with general historical information.
- Alabama
- Pace vs. State of Alabama (1883) (hosted at The Multiracial Activist)
- Georgia
- Slave Codes of the State of Georgia (1848) (hosted at Cardinal Stritch University)
- Atlanta Compromise 1895 (hosted at History Matters)
- Kansas
- Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 (hosted at Answers.com)
- Louisiana
- The Black Code of Louisiana (1724) (hosted at French Creoles)
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 (hosted at Answers.com)
- New York
- North Carolina
- The Free Colored People of North Carolina (1902) (hosted at University of Virginia Library)
- Ohio
- Black Laws of Ohio (1804) (hosted at Cardinal Stritch University)
- Virginia
- An act declaring the Negro, Mulatto, and Indian slaves within this dominion, to be real estate (Virginia - 1705) (hosted at Historical Documents)
- Washington DC
- Washington's Black Code (1808) (hosted at Cardinal Stritch University)
- Washington's Black Code (1812) (hosted at Northern Virginia Community College)
- A Washington Civil Rights Act (1869)
- The Constitution of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States (1816 - 1865) (hosted at Homepage of Mathew Powell)
- Emancipation in the District of Columbia (1862) (hosted at HU Archives)
- Multi States
- The Running of Mason and Dixon's Line (1763-1767) (hosted at Mason & Dixon Line Preservation Partnership)
- The Crittenden Compromise (1860) (hosted at James F. Epperson Homepage)
- African American History Timeline 1800-2000 (hosted at University of Washington, Dept. of History)
- 40 Acres and a Mule - 1865 (hosted at Emerging Minds)
- An Act to increase the military force of the Confederate States - 1865 (hosted at AfriGeneas)
- A Sharecrop Contract (1882) (hosted at Longman American History On-Line)
- "Anti-miscegenation laws" started in Maryland (hosted at Eugenics Watch)
- Supreme Court
- Buchanan vs. Warley (1917) (hosted at Legal Information Institute)
- Plessy vs. Ferguson (1886) (hosted at Legal Information Institute)
- State v. Boon (1801) (hosted at Pearson Education)
- Brown vs. Board of Education (hosted at African Americans.com)
- United States
- The Declaration of Independence (The omission) (hosted at Afro-American Almanac)
- A Bill Concerning Slaves (1779) (hosted at Historical Documents)
- An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves (1807) (hosted at Avalon Project)
- The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (hosted at Avalon Project)
- Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (hosted at Bartleby.com)
- Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (hosted at Abraham Lincoln Online)
- Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863) (hosted at University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities)
- The Emancipation Proclamation (hosted at National Parks Service)
- The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (hosted at African Americans.com)
- Liberia
- The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Liberia (1839) (hosted at Africa Within.com)