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  1. Lincoln Unimpressed with Kentucky's Impressment of African-Americans

    Date(s): June 13, 1864 Location: Washington D.C., Louisville, Kentucky Tag(s): Confederate, Soldiers, Telegram, Union, Telegraph, Black, African-Americans, Lincoln, Impressment, Civil War 

         Noone doubted the existence of unlawful impressment of African-American soliders into the Confederate Army during the Civil War. On March 26, 1863, the Confederate Congress passed the Impressment Act, which allowed it "to impress, or seize, food, fuel, slaves, and other commodities to support armies in the field." A 1793 law prohibited African Americans from bearing arms in the U.S. Army, but...

  2. A Black Voice, the Spark of the Modern Civil Rights Movement.

    Date(s): October 20, 1883 Location: MADISON, Alabama Tag(s): Civil Rights, Black, Black Press, Huntsville Gazette, William Gaston 

    Saturday, October 20, 1883 William Gaston used pages in The Huntsville Gazette to publish an article that shocked the black community. The headline read, “The Civil Rights Act: The United States Supreme Court Declares the Act Unconstitutional.” According to Gaston, “These cases [presented to the Supreme Court] were respectively prosecutions under that act for not admitting certain colored people...