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Pictorial illustration of abolitionism
Pictorial illustration of abolitionism. Its rise, progress and end. Vol. II.-Pictorial history of the cause of the great rebellion .. Liberty, equality and fraternity ... Asbury, New Jersey. Copyright secured by Alfred Gale. -
Lavinia Heyward's story of slavery and Reconstruction.
Interviewer: Stiles M. Scruggs Narrative Begins: Lavinia Heyward, a Negro woman 67 years old, living at 515 Marion Street, Columbia, S.C., is a daughter of ex-slaves... -
Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States
"Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States : in the case of the United States, appellants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Gedney, delivered on the 24th of February and 1st of March, 1841 : with a review of the case of the Antelope, reported in the 10th, 11th, and 12th volumes of Wheaton's Reports." -
The Fugitive Slave Law
Text of the law.; Includes "Synopsis of the law," critical of the legislation, signed by S.M. Africanus, Hartford, Ct., and poem in three parts. -
The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinet
Abraham Lincoln, seated next to table, surrounded by members of his Cabinet. -
Open letter to President McKinley by colored people of Massachusetts...
The Colored People of Boston and vicinity, through the Colored National League, at a mass meeting held in the Charles Street church, Tuesday evening, October 3d, 1899, addressed an Open Letter to President Mckinley. The reading of the letter by MR. Archibald H. Grimké, Chairman of the committee, was listened to with marked attention and interest, and at the conclusion of its reading the letter was adopted by the meeting with significant unanimity. The letter was forwarded to President McKinley -
Walter White to Jesse Owens
Unsent, typed letter, concerning participation by black athletes in the 1936 Olympic Games. -
Pearl Harbor Reactions
1942 interview with Texas woman about her brother’s treatment in the Army -
Daisy Bates to Roy Wilkins
1957 letter on the treatment of the Little Rock Nine -
You Should Have It - Scott's American Negro in the Great World War
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