Consequently, these restrictions pushed the education of African Americans underground. These conditions would continue until slavery was abolished with the.This is your opportunity to share your stories for our whole community's benefit. Under the 14th Amendment, African Americans could now legally claim the same constitutional rights afforded to all American citizens. He was elected president of a Black labor convention in Richmond in. Petitioners argue that the Chicago and Oak Park laws violate the right to keep and bear arms for two reasons. The Fourteenth Amendment made all native-born men and women citizens and guaranteed them equal protection under the law. Recognizing the African American members elected to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of. December and January entries through 1865 record prices from the annual hiring out proceedings. He also records births, deaths, and illnesses of slaves at.