6. For African American and Native American history, see the preceding Susan B. Anthony. “Make the Slave's Case Our Own,” ca. 1859, holograph speech. Susan B. Anthony Papers (container 7). Manuscript
Division. LC-MS-11049-1. Many early women's rights advocates, including Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), came to the suffrage movement by way of the
temperance and abolitionist causes. In their struggle to free the slaves, women recognized their own secondary status and
developed the political consciousness and skills that enabled them to challenge women's inequality. In this speech from 1859,
written when she was the principal New York agent for William Lloyd Garrison's American Anti-Slavery Society, Anthony urged
her audience to “make the slave's case our own.” Although she never considered herself a good speaker, Anthony tirelessly
traveled throughout the state delivering antislavery speeches while at the same time escalating her campaign for women's rights,
a dual mission that caused controversy within the abolitionist ranks and that foreshadowed her break with the society after
the Civil War when it refused to protest the exclusion of women from the Fourteenth Amendment. volumes in this series: Debra
Newman Ham, ed., The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture (Washington: Library of
Congress, 1993; Z1361.N39 L47 1993) and Patrick Frazier, ed., Many Nations: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Indian and Alaska Native Peoples of the United States (Washington: Library of Congress, 1996; Z1209.2.U5 L53 1996). Those interested in Jewish American source material should
consult Gary J. Kohn, comp., The Jewish Experience: A Guide to Manuscript Sources in the Library of Congress (Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1986; Z6373.U5 K64 1986). Other printed guides focus on countries or geographical
regions other than the United States, but they occasionally cite manuscript collections that contain material about immigrants
from those areas. Examples include G. Raymond Nunn, ed., Asia and Oceania: A Guide to Archival and Manuscript Sources in the United States (New York: Mansell, 1985; Z3001.A78 1985); Aloha South, ed., Guide to Non-Federal Archives and Manuscripts in the United States Relating to Africa (New York: H. Zell Publishers, 1989; CD3002.S68 1989); and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars multivolume series Scholars'
Guides to Washington, D.C., 1977 to date (volumes published thus far relate to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin
America, Russia, and the Mid-East; different call numbers for each volume). [back]
7. The Library of Congress NUCMC Office Web site at
<www.lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/>
provides a free Z39.50 gateway to RLIN AMC (the Research Libraries Information Network Archival and Mixed Collections file),
a database of more than 500,000 bibliographic records to archival collections in the United States and abroad, including NUCMC
catalog records created since 1986/87. Also useful for locating manuscript materials throughout the United States is the subscription-only
database Archives USA at <http://archives.chadwyck.com>, which includes the entire NUCMC catalog file of 84,000 records created
since 1959, and the Research Libraries Group Archival Resources at <http://www.rlg.org/arr/index.html>, a union database of
archival finding aids. Internet workstations throughout the Library of Congress reading rooms provide researchers with free
access to these databases.[back]
9. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “On the Social, Educational, Religious, and Political Position of Women in America,” June 25, 1883,
speech delivered at Princess Hall, London, England, container 6, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library
of Congress.[back]
11. For additional information on the incredibly diverse and important manuscript collection assembled by Marian S. Carson,
which includes a number of interesting documents relating to women's education, occupations, avocations, reform efforts, and
clubs, see the recently published Gathering History: The Marian S. Carson Collection of Americana, ed. Sara Day (Washington: Library of Congress, 1999; Z1201.G38 1999). See also the discussion of the Carson collection in
chapter 4 of this volume.[back]
23. Ruby A. Black interview, Ruby A. Black Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, as quoted in Library of Congress Acquisitions: Manuscript Division, 1984 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1986), 30.[back]
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