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  1. The Establishment of the First Black Law School
    date January 4, 1869map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans, Education, Law, Race-Relations

    African Americans never enjoyed exclusive access to law schools, much less to graduate schools in general. At the start of 1869, however, John Mercer Langston and the Trustees of Howard University announced the opening of the very first law school in the United States intended for African Americans and those seeking to provide legal defense for other African Americans. Langston himself was the founding...

  2. A Northern View on Southern People
    date 1853map NOXUBEE, Mississippitags Government, Law

    In the years of 1851 and 1852, Joseph Baldwin traveled through the south documenting everything he saw, in a very detailed manner. He was from New York, and needless to say, felt out of place and different among the southerners. Baldwin was a lawyer, and in his book about his travels, Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi, he takes most of his time explaining the legal matters of the places he visited....

  3. Albert Brown Defends the Homestead Bill
    date April 28, 1852map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Agriculture, Law, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations

    Before Congress ratified it, the Homestead Bill was a hotly contested piece of legislation. The Homestead Act eventually gave approximately 160 acres of undeveloped land in the west to any man of twenty one years, on the condition that he must build a house of 12 x 14 feet and live on the property for five years. This would not be a problem for people to fulfill who are coming looking for a life on...

  4. Emancipation Celebration
    date January 1, 1891map Alexandria City, Virginiatags African-Americans, Law, Race-Relations

    African Americans gathered in large numbers in Alexandria on New Year's night, January 1, 1891, to celebrate the twenty-eighth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Magnus L. Robinson, editor of the Weekly Leader noted with chivalry that in Lannon's Opera House every orchestra chair was filled with the fair sex--never have there been before such an array of Afro-American ladies at a public...

  5. Benjamin Thomas Lynched
    date August 8, 1899map Alexandria City, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Law, Race-Relations

    On Tuesday, August 8, 1899 in Alexandria Virginia, news about the alleged assault on eight-year-old Lilly Clark by Benjamin Thomas, a black male, spread rapidly. On Sunday August 6, Clark claimed she went over to Thomas's home to retrieve an axe, which had been loaned to him. When she reached his house and explained why she had come, Thomas allegedly grabbed Clark and drew her to him. Clark, however,...

  6. Florida Depression
    date December 23, 1889 to 1893map ALACHUA, Floridatags Economy, Law

    A native of Florida, Mr. Cooke jumped on the cash-in bandwagon and attempted to retrieve his money but The Land Mortgage Bank of Florida was unwilling to return Mr. Cooke's assets. Mr. Cooke then moved to sue the bank and the case was passed up to the High Court of Justice in Florida similar to a state supreme court. The apprehension of an uncertain economy left many citizens feeling insecure about...

  7. Trial Finds a White Man Innocent of Shooting a Black Man
    date January 19, 1866map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Law, Race-Relations, Slavery

    After the death of John Anderson, a black man who had been shot by an unknown white man, a trial was being held with eye-witnesses. Of the three witnesses who testified, two of them were black and one of them was white. The first black witness, known as Henry Barret, testified that the assailant had been a white man who he believed may have been dressed in grey and wearing a hat. The following white...

  8. Washington's Rejection of Black Suffrage
    date January 20, 1866map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans, Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations

    An unknown editor for the National Intelligencer in the District of Columbia complained in his article of the recent decision passed by the House of Representatives that allowed for black suffrage. He pointed out that, in a republican government, important legislation being passed and affecting the people should be reflective of the interests of at least majority of the people. He claimed, however,...

  9. A Pennsylvania Court Convicts Under the Fugitive Slave Law
    date August 8, 1851map MARSHALL, Mississippitags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Law, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    As the news of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 reached Holly Springs, Mississippi, the citizens were very anxious to see how the North would uphold the laws. The law stated that if one captures a fugitive slave, it is the responsibility of the law enforcement and citizens to aide in the returning of those slaves to their rightful owners. The people of Mississippi knew that slaves would attempt to...

  10. Mississippi Congressman Calls for the Annexation of Texas
    date February 20, 1845map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Economy, Government, Law, Migration/Transportation

    In 1845, the national debate over the annexation of the young country of Texas into the Union was in full swing. Politicians stood on either side of the debate, effectively representing their constituents in the matter. John Henderson, a Congressman from Mississippi, gave a speech to Congress on February 20, 1845, in which he outlined all of the reasons why the Union should annex Texas. As Congress...

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