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Constitution
Black people (primarily men) in several states were allowed to vote on the Constitution -
North Carolina Constitutional Convention
Free men of color were denied voting at this event -
Dredd Scott Vs. Sandford
Dredd Scott was a slave in Missouri who resided in the free state of Illinois from 1833-1843 and in the Louisiana Territory that had forbid slavery in 1820. Scott filed a lawsuit in Missouri Court for his freedom, claiming that his residence in a free state made him a free man, though he lost. Sanford (Scott's Master) won a 7-2 decision, with the belief that a negro whose ancestors were imported into the US and sold as slaves, whether enslaved or free, couldn't vote and therefore couldn't sue. -
Black Codes/ Jim Crow Laws
Laws passed by southern states with the intention of restricting the autonomy of African American people in an effort of forcing them to work in the labor industry to continue to profit off of the labor of African American people in a legal way as slavery had been prohibited by the 13th Amendment. -
13th Amendment: Abolishment of Slavery
The 13th Amendment was ratified, officially abolishing slavery. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
An act which declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens of the United States of the states they were residing in. -
The Civil Rights Cases
A suit that, in an 8-1 decision, was determined that private acts of racial discrimination were private wrongs the national government is powerless to correct by means of civil rights legislation. -
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
7-1 decision in favor of Ferguson, showing that equal but separate accommodations for black and white people that was imposed by Louisiana did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.