| Name | Year | Topics |
| Emancipation Proclamation | 1863 | slaves in Confederate states |
| Thirteenth Amendment | 1864 | slavery |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | 1866 | emancipation; rights of freed blacks |
| Peonage Abolition Act | 1867 | other forms of slavery |
| Fourteenth Amendment | 1868 | rights of freed blacks |
| First Enforcement Act | 1870 | voting rights |
| Fifteenth Amendment | 1870 | voting rights |
| Second Enforcement Act | 1871 | voting rights |
| Third Enforcement Act | 1871 | Ku Klux Klan |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | 1875 | discrimination in public places and on juries |
| Executive Order 8802 | 1941 | discrimination in government jobs |
| Executive Order 9808 | 1946 | President's Committee on Civil Rights |
| Executive Orders 9980 and 9981 | 1948 | government hiring practices; armed forces |
| Civil Rights Act of 1957 | 1957 | U.S. Civil Rights Commission; new protections of voting rights |
| Executive Order 11063 | 1962 | housing discrimination |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | 1964 | voting rights; school desegregation; federal intervention |
| Twenty-fourth Amendment | 1964 | poll tax |
| Voting Rights Act | 1965 | voting rights |
| Fair Housing Act | 1968 | real estate discrimination |
| Civil Rights Act of 1991 | 1991 | workplace discrimination |
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