INFAMOUS DATES IN BLACK HISTORY

INFAMOUS DATES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY Many dates matter in black history. Here are a few of them: From the 1776 "edited" Declaration of Independence, that deleted African and Indian slavery as reasons from separation from Great Britain,and King George III; To the 1787 Constitutional Convention's promulgation of Article I, section 2's 3/5's "all other's" coded denominational status of African slaves, who, as non-"citizens", could not vote; but were counted for House of Representative purposes, in slave- states; To the Northwest Ordinance of 1787's retreat from "no-slavery" allowance to acceding to artful dodging by legal legerdemain disguising servitude as "bonds" and "terms of indenture," yet able to acquire statehood; for proslavery dodgers like Indiana,and proslavery politicians like Henry "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" Harrison who was elected United States President; To 1857's "Dred Scott v. Sanford" United States' Supreme Court decision, which judicially codified, federally annotated, prevailing custom, law and practice, of the chattel, non-citizen, status of all African descendants, whether slave or free, neither with any rights under law, that any white person, man, woman, or child was bound to respect, even if they had lived in the "free" states and territories of the "Northwest," as Dred and Harriet Scott had, who sued freedom while living in Missouri; To 1876 and the Hayes-Tilden Compromise that ended an 8-year "Reconstruction" in the South with withdrawing of federal troops from South Carolina, Louisiana, with the resurgence of white terrorism in court and outside of court by vengeful whites; To 1896 and Plessy v. Ferguson which established apartheid, Jim Crow, so-called "separate but equal" as federal law, to exclude African, Asian, Mexican descendants from those who were legally "white" pursuant to "one-drop rule" jurisprudence.