Last Updated on April 19, 2023 by Dennis
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
- 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)
- 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declaring the Negro, Mulatto, and Indian slaves within this dominion, to be real estate (Virginia – 1705) (hosted at Historical Documents)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- A Bill Concerning Slaves (1779) (hosted at Historical Documents)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)