MARCUS D.POHLMANN is currently the chairman of the Department of Political Science at Rhodes College. He has published widely in the field of African-American Politics, including Black Politics in Conservative America and Racial Politics at the Crossroads.LINDA VALLAR WHISENHUNT is Legal Fellow in the Richard W. Riley Institute of Government Politics and Public Leadership at Furman University where she instructs students in trial advocacy. She is also of counsel to the law frim of Douglas A. Churdar, P.C., and has practiced in the area of labor and employment law.

• Introduction The Slavery Period Introduction 1776 Articles of Confederation 1776 Declaration of Independence 1787 Northwest Ordinance 1787 United States Constitution 1793 Fugitive Slave Act 1807 Slave Importation Act 1819 Missouri Compromise 1850 Compromise of 1850 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act 1861 Constitution of the Confederate States of America 1861 Confiscation Act 1863 Emancipation Proclamation Postwar Reconstruction 1865 Freedmen's Bureau 1865 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution 1866 Civil Rights Act 1867 Reconstruction Act 1868 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution 1870 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution 1870 Enforcement Act 1871 Klan Act 1875 Civil Rights Act Civil Rights Era Introduction 1941 Executive Order 8802 1946 Executive Order 9808 1948 Executive Order 9980 1948 Executive Order 9981 1957 Executive Order 10730 1957 Civil Rights Act 1960 Civil Rights Act 1961 Executive Order 10925 1962 Executive Order 11053 1962 Executive Order 11063 1964 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution 1964 Civil Rights Act 1965 Voting Rights Act 1965 Executive Order 11246 1968 Fair Housing Act Bibliography Index