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    The "Twenty Negro Law", also known as the "Twenty Slave Law" and the "Twenty Nigger Law", was a piece of legislation enacted by the Confederate Congress...
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    Confederate Conscription Acts 1862–1864 (category Conscription law)
    the Twenty Negro Law, was approved. The Third Conscription limited the number of reserved occupations, but, although much criticized, kept the "Twenty Negro...
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  • combat medic in the Confederate Army, deserts after learning of the Twenty Negro Law and witnessing the death of his nephew Daniel during the Second Battle...
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    passing of the Twenty Negro Law. This act allowed large plantation owners to avoid military service if they enslaved 20 or more people. The law exempted an...
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    government's passing of the Twenty Negro Law, allowing wealthy plantation owners to avoid military service if they owned twenty slaves or more. In spite...
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  • by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War Twenty Negro Law: A reaction to Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, passed...
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    with "universal odium". The legislative vehicle was the controversial Twenty Negro Law that specifically exempted one white overseer or owner for every plantation...
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    children, only where there were more than eight Negro pupils in the school district. The legislature passed the law over a veto by the governor. 1911–1962: Segregation...
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    October 11, the Confederate States Congress passed the so-called "Twenty Negro Law", which exempted anyone who owned 20 or more slaves, a move that caused...
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    slaves or more were exempt from Confederate conscription under the "Twenty Negro Law". When the first companies of Texas soldiers reached Richmond, Virginia...
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  • Oregon's borders. The law authorized a punishment for any black settler remaining in the territory to be whipped with "not less than twenty nor more than thirty-nine...
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    its negro population, while Stoutsville, eight miles southwest of Monroe City, has not allowed a black to remain in town after nightfall for twenty-five...
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    1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke. The movement...
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    Negros (English: /ˈneɪɡroʊs, ˈnɛɡ-/, UK: /ˈneɪɡrɒs/, Tagalog: [ˈnegɾos]) is the fourth largest and third most populous island in the Philippines, with...
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  • The League of Struggle for Negro Rights was organized by the Communist Party in 1930 as the successor to the American Negro Labor Congress. The League...
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    The Negro Motorist Green Book (also, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, or Green-Book) was a guidebook for African American roadtrippers. It was founded...
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  • Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 (category Virginia law)
    felony. As well as if a negro, mulatto, or Indian, whether enslaved or free, raises a hand in opposition against a non-negro, non-mulatto, or non-Indian...
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    The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from requiring the payment of a poll...
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    Naturalization Law was drafted adding provisions that applicants must be "Negro", at least twenty-one years old, and lack a criminal record. Under the Law of 8...
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  • The Negros famine took place on Negros island in the Philippines in the mid-1980s, during the waning days of the Marcos dictatorship. It was a key moment...
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  • the Board of Managers to purchase twenty-six acres of land for a 'Lunatic Asylum' for the benefit of 'Insane Negroes', if it was deemed 'expedient' to...
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    intoxicants. By 1914, forty-six states had regulations on cocaine and twenty-nine states had laws against opium, morphine, and heroin. In the 1800s opiates were...
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    Martial law in the Philippines (Filipino: Batas Militar sa Pilipinas) refers to the various historical instances in which the Philippine head of state...
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    of the governorates of Misiones, Formosa, Chaco, La Pampa, Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego. The agreement about a frontier...
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    2024. Welch, 65–66 Booker, Christopher Brian (2014). ""No Force bill! No Negro Domination in the South!": President Grover Cleveland and the Return to...
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    of the Bayou Pierre in this county, with from twenty to thirty negroes: that a number of those negroes were brought to this immediate neighborhood, and...
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    Black American communities, while the NAACP began to promote the hymn as a "Negro national anthem" in 1917 (with the term "Black national anthem" similarly...
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    the sanction of the law; for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the Negro group. The lawyers from...
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  • and all of its franchises went defunct after the 1915 season. Numerous Negro leagues operated during the first half of the twentieth century; seven leagues...
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