African Americans

Items with "Subject: African Americans"
Title	Description	Class
White Person Marrying a Negro or Celebrating Such Marriage (1873)		This act passed by the Virginia General Assembly punished any white person who intermarried with a Black person with fines and jail time. It also fined the person who conducted the ceremony, with half of the fine going to the informant who reported the marriage to authorities.
Winny v. Phebe Whitesides alias Prewitt (1824)		This case was the first freedom suit heard by the Missouri Supreme Court. Winny claimed her freedom on account of being brought into the free territory of what would become Illinois before being removed to Missouri. The court found in favor of her freedom, establishing a "once free, always free" precedent that was eventually overturned by the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford.

Title: African Americans
Description: African Americans refers to people in America who have African ancestry and who are legally, socially, and politically racialized as Black. This includes Afro-Indigenous or Black Natives and their descendants, Black people who were enslaved by the Five Tribes. The term African Americans does not take into account the complexities and diversities of Black identities in the United States over time. African Americans have faced enslavement, racial, social, sexual, and political discrimination throughout U.S. history.

Title: African Americans
Description: African Americans refers to people in America who have African ancestry and who are legally, socially, and politically racialized as Black. This includes Afro-Indigenous or Black Natives and their descendants, Black people who were enslaved by the Five Tribes. The term African Americans does not take into account the complexities and diversities of Black identities in the United States over time. African Americans have faced enslavement, racial, social, sexual, and political discrimination throughout U.S. history.

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