African American History

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
  • 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
  • Dred Scott Case (hosted at Washington State University in St. Louis)
• Nebraska
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 (hosted at Answers.com)
• New York
  • Abolition Law, 1799 (hosted at Ontario County Records and Archives Center)
• North Carolina
  • The Free Colored People of North Carolina (1902) (hosted at University of Virginia Library)
• Ohio
  • Black Laws of Ohio (1804)
• 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declaring the Negro, Mulatto, and Indian slaves within this dominion, to be real estate (Virginia – 1705) (hosted at Historical Documents)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 (1812) (hosted at Northern Virginia Community College)
  • 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
  • History of Mason and Dixon’s Line  (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)
  • 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)
• 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
  • A Bill Concerning Slaves (1779) (hosted at Historical Documents)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)
  • The Emancipation Proclamation (hosted at National Parks Service)
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (hosted at African Americans.com)
• Liberia
  • Liberian Constitutions (1820-1984) (hosted at OnLiberia.org)