jan 1, 1870 - Black Codes
Description:
Policy passed in the South, outlawing common to Black people and sweeping many into prisons. James Kent, a New York lawyer wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact, participate equally with the whites, in the exercise of civil and political rightsAdded to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1870
Now
~ 155 years ago