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.]