1852: Registry for Negroes and Mulattos
Article 13, Section 4 of the Indiana Constitution stated that each County Clerk was to maintain a Register of Negroes and Mulattoes. All African Americans had to be registered.
Cited by: Gunter, J. “Negative Racial Attitudes toward African Americans in Indiana during the Civil War,” Black History News and Notes [Indiana Historical Society] No. 81 (August 2000), 3-8. [6pp.]