Establishing the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity In the Armed Forces. WHEREAS it is essential that there be maintained in the armed services of the United States the highest standards of democracy, with equality of treatment and opportunity for all those who … Read More(1948) Executive Order 9981
U.S. Supreme Court SMITH v. ALLWRIGHT, 321 U.S. 649 (1944) 321 U.S. 649 SMITH v. ALLWRIGHT, Election Judge, et al. No. 51. Reargued Jan. 12, 1944. Decided April 3, 1944. As Amended June 12, 1944. Rehearing Denied May 8, 1944. See … Read More(1944) Smith v. Allwright
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where any tribe or band of Indians has been, or shall hereafter be, located upon any reservation created for their use, either … Read More(1887) Dawes Severalty Act
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the … Read More(1862) The Homestead Act
February 2, 1848 In the name of Almighty God The United States of America and the United Mexican States animated by a sincere desire to put an end to the calamities of the war which unhappily exists between the two Republics and to establish Upon … Read More(1848) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mr. Chief Justice Marshall delivered the opinion of the Court. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that, after the 1st day … Read More(1831) Worcester v. Georgia
Mr. Chief Justice Marshall delivered the opinion of the Court: This bill is brought by the Cherokee nation, praying an injunction to restrain the state of Georgia from the execution of certain laws of that state, which, as is alleged, go directly to annihilate the … Read More(1831) Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Robert C. Weaver was a noted economist and administrator. From 1966 through 1968, he was the first African American cabinet official, serving as the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Weaver was born December 29, 1907 in Washington D.C. and raised … Read MoreRobert Clifton Weaver (1907-1997)
It is believed that linguist Joseph Roye Applegate spoke as at least 13 languages and had reading knowledge of several others. He was born to parents who operated a boarding house in Wildwood, New Jersey on December 4, 1925. When his family moved to Philadelphia … Read MoreJoseph R. Applegate (1925-2003)
One of the original Greensboro Four who took part in the Woolworth sit-ins. It is reported that as a nine-year-old he boasted to friends that he would “one day drink from the white people’s fountains and eat at their lunch counters.” Blair was the most … Read MoreJibreel Khazan/Ezell Blair, Jr. (1941- )
