African American Timeline - Race/Ethnicity By RichardJWillis Jan 1, 1619 First African American slaves to Jamestown (VA) Colony Jan 1, 1660 First Colonial (America) Slave Codes enacted Jan 1, 1660 Bacon's Rebellion (VA) Jan 1, 1770 Boston Massacre Jan 1, 1776 Declaration of Independence Jan 1, 1823 Doctrine of Discovery from US Supreme Court Jan 1, 1832 Antelope and Amistad slave ship cases to Supreme Court Jan 1, 1857 SCOTUS Dred Scott decision Jan 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation (Lincoln) Jan 1, 1866 Federal Civil Rights Act (Post-Civil War Jan 1, 1868 14th Amendment Due Process ratified (impressed on states) Jan 1, 1896 SCOTUS Plessy v. Ferguson 'separate but equal' doctrine Jan 1, 1954 SCOTUS Hearing and rehearing on Brown v. Board of Education (9-0, Warren) Jan 1, 1965 Civil Rights Act of 1964