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This searchable database includes over 7000+ records on legal documents on Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States during Legal Apartheid or Jim Crow The time period covered is 1865 through 1963.
Documents were gathered through an electronic database search using the following search terms: ((African or black or negro or colored) in the same sentence with (slave or slavery or enslaved or descendant or "Jim Crow" or Segregation). Last updated 2020.
| Dates | Total |
| 1865 to 1899 | 1384 |
| 1900 to 1949 | 2943 |
| 1950 to 1963 | 2778 |
| No Date | 207 |
The documents were not reviewed and may only be tangentially related to the topic. Furthermore, it is possible that an inappropriate article is included in the database. If you think an article is racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic or otherwise inappropriate, please email with the (1) name of the database and (2) the complete name of the article.
This database list records that meet the condition (upon search). Each record includes, at a minimum, title, citation. Some records include summaries.
| Document Type | Count |
| Administrative Decisions & Guidance | 220 |
| Arbitration Materials | 0 |
| Briefs | 760 |
| Cases | 5459 |
| Expert Materials | 0 |
| Jury Verdicts & Settlements | 61 |
| Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources | 703 |
| Legislation (Proposed & Enacted ) | 0 |
| Trial Court Documents | 2 |
| Trial Court Orders | 108 |
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