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From Slavery to Civil Rights: A Timeline of African-American History

A sketch of the laws relating to slavery
1827 book

The Africans of the slave bark "Wildfire"
1861 drawing of slave ship

Gang Of 25 Sea Island Cotton And Rice Negroes
1852 advertisement for slaves

Bill of sale for Peter
1797 slave bill of sale

The (bark) Great West
Pictorial envelope with slave ship

Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States
1841 court argument in the Amistad case

Ex-slave stories (Texas) – William Byrd (b. 1940) of Madisonville, Texas
Slave narrative



	Pictorial illustration of abolitionism 1800 broadside Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Possible Amelioration of Slavery 1853 periodical article from North American Review Anthony Burns 1855 wood engraving of fugitive slave, Anthony Burns Slavery is a hard foe to battle 1855 sheet music Anti-slavery fair! 1857 broadside A Lecture on John Brown 1860 lecture by Frederick Douglass John Brown Song sheet Map showing the distribution of the slave population in the southern states 1861 map



	Philadelphia, 26 October, 1789 1789 broadside featuring a plan for improving the condition of free blacks North Star, June 2, 1848 1848 newspaper edited by Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany The resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia 1850 lithograph portraying the final episode in the flight of slave, Henry Brown The Fugitive slave law 1850 broadside with text of the law $100 Reward! Ranaway from the undersigned 1860 broadside Narrative of Sojourner Truth 1878 book written by emancipated slave Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth, three-quarter-length portrait 1864 carte de visite photograph The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters 1879 book by William Still



	Secession, 1860-1861 1860s map Wyld's military map of the United States 1861 map showing the Northern and Southern states Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of "contrabands" at Foller's house 1862 photograph A. Lincoln showing Sojourner Truth the Bible presented by colored people of Baltimore 1893 photograph of a painting Bermuda Hundred, Va. African-American teamsters near the signal tower 1864 photograph "Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street 1864 photograph Arlington, Va. Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry at Fort Corcoran 1865 photograph The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinet 1866 engraved reproduction of painting Emancipation day : song and chorus 1876 sheet music Song sheet: Battle hymn of the Republic Song sheet – Julia Ward Howe rewrites John Brown’s Body lyrics



	Emancipation by Thomas Nast 1865 engraving Mustered Out 1866 Harper’s Weekly drawing by Alfred Waud Lavinia Heyward's story of slavery and Reconstruction (n.d.)Slave Narrative Sea Island School, no. 1 - St. Helena Island. Established April, 1862 1866-70 print showing freedmen’s school in South Carolina Glimpses at the Freedmen 1866 drawing of the Freedmen’s Union Industrial School in Richmond, Va. Ho for Kansas! 1878 broadside calling on African Americans to leave for Kansas Heroes of the Colored Race 1881 color lithograph



	Afro-American Monument 1897 lithograph showing 13 scenes pertaining to Afro-American history Colored troops disembarking 1898 Edison film during Spanish American War The progress of colored women 1898 speech by Mary Church Terrell before the NAWSA Open letter to President McKinley by colored people of Massachusetts 1899 letter Laboratory at Tuskegee Institute 1902 photograph Booker T. Washington by R. V. Randolph. Seattle, 1913 1913 broadside Help for the Hard Times by George Washington Carver 1916 pamphlet



	Good bye Alexander, good bye honey boy 1918 sheet music When the good Lord makes a record of a hero's deed he draws no color line 1918 sheet music Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War 1919 pamphlet You Should Have It 1919 advertisement for Scott's American Negro in the Great World War 803rd Pioneer Infantry Band, No. 16 1919 photograph 311,000 Negroes Called to Colors by U.S. to Fight for Democracy 1918 newspaper article This is 'Our War, Too 1918 newspaper article



	Walter White to Jesse Owens, December 4, 1935 1935 unsent typed letter Negro musicians playing accordion and washboard in front of store 1938 photograph taken near New Iberia, La. Scottsboro Limited 1931 lithograph by Prentiss Taylor and dedicated to Langston Hughes The Whites Invade Harlem 1938 folk study written by WPA interviewer Birmingham, Alabama, Block Statistics. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940 1940 map showing black/white housing statistics Negro and white man sitting on curb talking, Muskogee, Oklahoma 1939 photograph Man drinking at a water cooler in the streetcar terminal 1939 photograph taken in Oklahoma City, Okla. At the bus station 1940 photograph taken in Durham, N.C.



	Above and beyond the call of duty 1943 poster of Dorie Miller who received the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor Tuskegee Institute, Alabama 1942 photograph of Dr. George Washington Carver talking to reserve officers Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington 1942 photograph featuring Marian Anderson and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune Man receiving a piece of paper, a military award, Tuskegee Army Air Field, Alabama 1940s photograph Pearl Harbor Reactions 1942 interview with Texas woman about her brother’s treatment in the Army Negro Marines in Harlem 1943 photograph Office of War Information news bureau 1943 photograph of Ted Poston, editor of the OWI’s Negro desk in Washington U.S. anti-aircraft gun crew 1940’s photograph taken in the South Pacific Books are weapons 1940’s poster



	Rosa Parks, seated on bus, looking out window, her face in profile 1956 photograph Little Rock Nine and Daisy Bates posed in living room 1950’s photograph Daisy Bates to Roy Wilkins, December 17, 1957 1957 letter on the treatment of the Little Rock Nine Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, and Mark Martin stage sit-down strike 1960 photograph of Greensboro sit-in March on Washington 1963 photograph The Rev. Martin Luther King delivers his address at the Lincoln Memorial 1964 photograph John Howard Griffin : Black like me 1960s brochure Peaceful Village 1996 winning quilt with picture of Malcolm X – Can you spot him?



	Civil Rights Learning Page Community Center The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920, Selections from the Ohio Historical Society American Memory Collection African American Odyssey American Memory Collection African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection 1818-1907 American Memory Collection Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 American Memory Collection By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights 1860s – 1960’s American Memory Collection The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress American Memory Collection From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 American Memory Collection Slaves and the Courts American Memory Collection The African American Mosaic Library of Congress online exhibit Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom Links to images in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Images of Twentieth Century African American Activists Links to images in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination Links to images in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Unchained Memories HBO/Library of Congress documentary Unchained Memories Resources Teacher Resources from Time Classroom

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