LEGAL DECISIONS
IMPACTING ON LITERATURE BY BLACK AND WHITE AUTHORS IN AMERICA
1776
Declaration of Independence
Omitted Anti-Slavery Clause
1787
The Constitution of the
United States
1791
The Bill of Rights
1807
The Act to Prohibit the
Importation of Slaves
1819-1821
The Missouri Compromise
1850
The Compromise of 1850
The Texas and New Mexico Act
The Fugitive Slave Act
1854
The Kansas Nebraska Act
1863
The Emancipation Proclamation
1865
The
Freedmen’s Bureau
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Black Codes of Mississippi
1866
The Civil
Rights Act (1866)
The Freedmen’s Bureau Extension Act
1867
The First
Reconstruction Act
1868
The
Fourteenth Amendment
1870
The Fifteenth Amendment
1871
Ku Klux Klan Act
1875 The Civil Rights Act (1875)
1896
Plessy v. Ferguson
1941
Executive Order 8802
1957
Executive Order 10730
1957-60
The Civil Rights Acts of 1957
and 1960
1964
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965
1968
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
1975 Congressional
Black Caucus: Legislative Agenda, 94 94th Congress
