Primary Documents from African American History

(1961) Kansas Fair Employment Practices Act
CHAPTER 248 KANSAS ACT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION AN ACT prohibiting discriminatory employment practices and policies based upon race, color, religion, or...
October 24th, 2013

(1964) Hawaii Fair Employment Practices Act
ACT 44 A Bill for an Act Amending Act 180, L. 1963, Relating to Fair Employment Practices. Be it Enacted...
October 24th, 2013

(1961) Idaho Fair Employment Practices Act
CHAPTER 309 AN ACT PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT AND INPUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS BECAUSE OF RACE, CREED, COLOR OR NATIONAL ORIGIN; DECLARING...
October 24th, 2013

(1957) Colorado Fair Employment Practices Act
CHAPTER 176 An Act CONCERNING DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT AND TO REPEAL ARTICLE 19, CHAPTER 81, COLORADO REVISED STATUTES 1953, AS...
October 24th, 2013

(1953) Alaska Fair Employment Practices Act
CHAPTER 18 AN ACT Relating to and providing far the elimination of certain practice of discrimination because of race, color,...
October 24th, 2013

(1959) California Fair Employment Practices Act
CHAPTER 121 An act to add Part 4.5 (commencing with Section 1410) to Division 2 of, and to amend Section...
October 24th, 2013

(1920) Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World
Preamble Be It Resolved, That the Negro people of the world, through their chosen representatives in convention assembled in Liberty...
September 29th, 2013

(1977) The Combahee River Collective Statement
We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. [1] During that time we have...
November 16th, 2012

(2008) Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative 424
Title A Constitutional amendment to prohibit the state from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to any individual or group...
November 3rd, 2012