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Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 counts each black slave as three-fifths of a person http://constitutionus.com/
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The Supreme Court rules that Dred Scott, an African American, is excluded from U.S. citizenship and therefore cannot bring suit for his freedom
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Upon taking effect in January 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation freed 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million African American slaves.
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Congress overturns the Dred Scott Decision by including in its Section 1 the following language:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
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Signed into law by President Arthur, this statute made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to ever become U.S. citizens
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President Roosevelt signs into law the Magnuson Act, which repeals the Chinese Exclusion Act because China becomes an ally with the U.S. in its war against Japan.
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As many as 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation.
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President Johnson signs into law the Civil Rights Act, which makes it illegal to discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
