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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Department of Afro-American Studies
Spring Semester 1984

412 Blacks and the United States Constitution
Vel, Phillips, JD., Adjunct Professor
Wednesday 6:30-9:10 p.m.
Mitchell Hall, Room 112

January 18 Declaration of Independence
January 24 U.S. Constitution as originally adopted
February 1 U.S. Bill of Rights
February 8 Slavery in the United States
February 15 Missouri Compromise of 1820
February 22 Dred Scott vs Sandford U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857) &
Somerset vs Stewart 98 Eng, Rep, 499 (K.B. 1772)
February 29 Emancipation Proclamation
March 7 Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
March 14 SPRING BREAK
March 21 Post Reconstruction Laws
Federal/State
March 28 Post Reconstruction Litigation
Federal/State
April 4 Reconstruction Termination
Hayes/Tildman Presidential Election Compromise 1877
April 11 Twentieth Century Issues:
Public Accommodations and Facilities
April 18 Education and Employment
April 25 Housing, Health and Hunan Service
May 2 Voting and Reapportionment
May 9 Administration of Justice
May 16 FINAL EXAMINATION
Required Text: Derrick Bell, Race, Racism and American Law, Second
Wisconsin Constitution, material distributed in class and placed on
and selected readings from a booklist

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