Capitol Park stands at the site of the former Alabama State Capitol in Tuscaloosa, where debates over freedom and liberty unfolded amid a long history of slavery, segregation, and the struggle for equality. Tuscaloosa served as the seat of Alabama state government from 1826 to 1846, and in 1833 the legislature meeting there passed a Slave Code of forty-two regulations that further restricted the mobility and limited freedoms of enslaved people and persons of color by regulating assembly, travel, education, employment, and marriage. These measures, like similar laws across the South, were intended to curb runaways, prevent rebellions, and maximize profits for enslavers. Alabama's 1819 constitution had already limited citizenship to white males over twenty-one while defining enslaved people as property, and in 1830 the Indian Removal Act advanced the forced relocation of southeastern Native American tribes. In 1837 Chief Yoholo Micco, also known as Chief Eufaula, visited the Alabama Legislature and gave a farewell address before leading his people on a forced march toward Oklahoma Territory, dying along the way on the Trail of Tears. By 1860, Tuscaloosa County's census counted 12,971 whites, 84 freed people of color, and 10,145 enslaved people. After the Civil War and the formal end of slavery, Reconstruction briefly expanded freedoms for blacks, including voting rights and due process, but new laws in the late 1800s again restricted their liberties, while the Ku Klux Klan and similar groups used assault and lynching to subjugate blacks, control their labor, and prevent them from voting and moving freely. The first of at least ten recorded lynchings in Tuscaloosa occurred in 1884. In 1901, John Knox, president of Alabama's constitutional convention, declared that its main goal was to establish white supremacy within the limits of the federal Constitution; all 155 delegates were white, even though the 1900 state census recorded 1,001,152 whites and 827,307 blacks. Blacks remained second-class citizens until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.