In 1797, the US Congress rejects the North Carolina Slave Petition, the first recorded petition for an end to slavery by freed Blacks.

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On December 13, 2004, in the Tulsa survivor litigation, the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit denies rehearing en banc, with two judges dissenting.

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Bayard Rustin publishes an Economic Bill of Rights in the New York Times