Black Codes: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Black Codes: Slavery Under a New Name During Reconstruction. Nov 07, 2026
Add new Web site: Constitution Center - Black Codes (1865). Jul 13, 2026
Add new Web site: Minnesota State Pressbooks - American History Told By Contemporaries - Mississippi Black Codes (1865). Feb 24, 2026
Add new Web site: NPS - Transcription of "The Code Noir" (The Black Code). Aug 12, 2025
Add new Web site: National Museum of African American History and Culture - Black Codes. Jun 02, 2025
Add new Web site: South Carolina Encyclopedia - Black Codes. Dec 30, 2024
Add new Web site: Teaching American History - Black Codes of Mississippi. Oct 09, 2024
Add new Web site: UCF's Showcase of Text, Archives, Research and Scholarship - Custom, Law, and History: The Enduring Influence of Florida's "Black Code". Aug 26, 2024
Article revised and media added. Jun 09, 2024
Add new Web site: Mississippi Encyclopedia - Black Codes. Jun 06, 2024
Add new Web site: American History Central - Black Codes, Summary, Facts, Significance, APUSH. Dec 01, 2023
Add new Web site: Jim Crow Museum - Black Code. Sep 21, 2023
Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trust - Black Codes. Jul 26, 2023
Add new Web site: Ferris State University - Black Code. Apr 18, 2023
Add new Web site: Digital History - Texas Black Codes. Mar 06, 2023
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Black Codes. Dec 30, 2022
Add new Web site: Teach Democracy - The Southern Black Codes of 1865-66. Oct 04, 2022
Add new Web site: United States History for Kids - Black Code. Mar 08, 2022
Corrected display issue. Aug 20, 2019
Added excerpts from a vagrancy law enacted by the Mississippi state legislature in 1865. May 05, 2015
Article revised. Dec 10, 2004
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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