A History of Prejudices Against African-Americans Timeline Part I Continued from 1800-1898
| 1800: | US citizens are prevented from exporting slaves | ||
| 1802: | Ohio's constitution abolishes slavery | ||
| 1803: | South Carolina reopens its ports to African slave trade; Ohio enters the Union as a free state | ||
| 1806: | A Charleston, SC ordinance prohibits teaching slaves "in any mechanic or handicraft trade" | ||
| 1807: | The US Congress prohibits importation of new slaves; The revised New Jersey state constitution limits suffrage to strictly white free males | ||
| 1810: | Maryland v. Dolly Chapple, court rules that enslaved blacks may testify in court involving other enslaved people | ||
| 1812: | Louisiana enters the Union as a slave state |
| 1813: | The New York legislature declares July 4, 1827 as the date for the absolute end of slavery | ||
| 1816: | Louisiana law prohibits slaves from testifying | ||
| 1817: | Mississippi enters the Union as a slave state | ||
| 1818: | Illinois constitution abolishes slavery | ||
| 1820: | US army is forbidden to accept blacks; The Missouri Compromise: Maine will be admitted as a free state, Missouri as a slave state; slavery is prohibited in the territory of the Louisiana Purchase, north of 36° 30' | ||
| 1826: | South Carolina law allows free blacks to own real estate | ||
| 1827: | Illinois law prohibits any African-American from testifying | ||
| 1830: | An Ohio law deems blacks ineligible for serving in state militia; blacks in Portsmouth, OH, are forced to leave the state |
| 1831: 1833: 1835: 1836: | Ohio blacks are prohibited from serving on juries; The first Colored Female Society is organized; Agu 22, revolt of Nat Turner Alabama law makes it illegal for slaves or free blacks to preach unless in the presence of 5 "respectable" slave holders North Carolina repeals a voting rights provision that grants suffrage to free black males The US House of Representatives passes the "gag rule" that prevents congressional action on antislavery resolutions |  |
| 1837: | Pennsylvania Supreme Court excludes blacks from suffrage | ||
| 1841: | Blacks and whites are required to swear on different bibles in Georgia | ||
| 1845: | Texas is admitted to the Union as a slave state | ||
| 1836: | The US House of Representatives passes the "gag rule" that prevents congressional action on antislavery resolutions | ||
| 1837: | Pennsylvania Supreme Court excludes blacks from suffrage | ||
| 1841: | Blacks and whites are required to swear on different bibles in Georgia | ||
| 1845: | Texas is admitted to the Union as a slave state | ||
| 1847: | Dred Scott first files suit for his freedom | ||
| 1848: | Slavery is forbidden in the Oregon Territory; Ohio's "Black Laws" are reversed, giving blacks legal standing in courts and providing education for black children | ||
| 1849: | Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery; Benjamin Roberts files the first integration suit in the US for his daughter who is denied admission to schools in Boston; California's constitution outlaws slavery | ||
| 1850: | The Compromise of 1850 states that slaves must be returned who escape; admits California into the Union as a free state; admits New Mexico and Utah with or without slavery; according to their constitution | ||
| 1851: | Virginia enacts new law requiring freed slaves to leave or be enslaved again; Indiana includes an anti-immigration provision into its constitution | ||
| 1853: | Virginia imposes a poll tax on free blacks to obtain funds for their deportation to Africa; first black YMCA is established | ||
| 1854: | Kansas-Nebraska Act permits admission, with or without slavery, of Kansas and Nebraska territories | ||
| 1856: | Blacks in Ohio are granted control of their schools | ||
| 1857: | Dred Scott v. Sanford, Supreme Court rules against citizenship for blacks; prohibits Dred Scott from suing for his freedom because he is considered property and as such "has no rights a white man has to respect." |
| 1859: 1860: 1861: | Arkansas state legislature requires free blacks to choose between exile and enslavement; Blacks are excluded from Oregon when it enters the Union; John Brown raids Harpers Ferry South Carolina secedes; 2 blacks in Worcester, MA are named jurors, first in Massachusetts history The Confiscation Act frees slaves under the Union Army's control, The Civil War begins when Confederates attack Fort Sumter, SC, April 12 |  |
| 1862: | Slavery is banned by Congress in Washington D.C. and US territories; slaveholders are compensated for their lost "property"; Congress approves the enlistment of freed blacks | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1863: | Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in those states rebelling against the Union; Blacks are officially accepted in the Union Army and Navy; slavery is abolished in all Dutch colonies | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1864: | Congress passes a bill granting black soldiers equal pay, arms, equipment, and medical services; Maryland's constitution is amended to abolish slaver | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1865: | US Congress ratifies the 13th Amendment which abolishes slavery; Slavery officially ends in Texas, Civil War ends; Freedmen's Bureau is established; first interracial jury in US indicts Jefferson Davis; Mississippi passes its Black Code | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1866: | The first Civil Rights Act declaring freed blacks to be US citizens; Southern Homestead Act is passed opening public lands in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida to all | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1867: | First Reconstruction Act is passed; the first legal voting by black man is recorded in Louisiana; Iowa and Dakota grant suffrage to black males; Philadelphia, PA, forbids segregation in public conveniences | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1868: | Congress passes 14th Amendment guaranteeing blacks full citizenship and equal civil rights; blacks hold majority of seats in South Carolina's constitutional convention | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1869: | Rev. Hiram R. Revels and Blanche K. Bruce are chosen to fill two seats in the US Senate | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1870: | US Congress passes the 15th Amendment | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1871: | US Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan Act, designed to enforce provisions of 14th Amendment | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1872: | The Freedmen's Bureau ceases operation | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1873: | Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1874: | The Virginia legislature rearranges election, Gerrymandering, districts to reduce the political power of blacks | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1875: | The Civil Rights Act of 1875 gives blacks the right to equal treatment in inns, public conveniences, and public amusement places, and allows right to serve on juries | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1880: | Stauder v. West Virginia, the Supreme Court rules that the exclusion of blacks from jury duty is unconstitutional | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1881 | Tennessee enacts a law requiring racial segregation in railroad cars, this becomes the precedent for teh laws which will be called "Jim Crow" laws
| 1883: | Supreme Court rules taht the 1875 Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional because the 14th Amendment only gave Congress the power to forbid states from discriminating | 1890: | The Mississippi state constitution restricts blacks' suffrage through an "understanding" test; The Colored Farmer's Alliance is founded and is dedicated in improving the economic condition of black farmers | 1893: | Ida B. Wells-Barnett began an anti-lynching campaign | 1895: | W.E.B. Du Bois receives the first doctorate degree awarded to a black from Harvard University, Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta Compromise" speech | |
| 1896: 1898: | InPlessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court rules that "separate but equal" facilities are constitutional Louisiana originates the "grandfather clause," which qualifies males to vote only if their fathers or grandfathers were eligible |  |