Archival Research Catalog (ARC)

ARC Gallery: African Americans

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Amistad Civil Rights and NAACP Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 Civil War Civil War Soldiers (Death and Interment at Camp Nelson, Kentucky)
Education and Children Education and School Desegregation (Brown v. Board and Dorothy E. Davis cases) Emancipation Proclamantion Equal Opportunity Families and Children
Freedmen's Bureau Fugitive Slaves Harlem Harmon Foundation (in support of African American Artists) Jazz
Religion and Christianity Slavery Tuskegee Syphilis Study Women World War I and World War II

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First row:
ARC ID 301672, Opinion of the Supreme Court in United States v. the Amistad, 03/09/1841;
ARC ID 542003 [March on Washington, 1963];
ARC ID 299909, Act of August 6, 1965 (Voting Rights Act of 1965), Public Law 89-110 ...;
ARC ID 300389, [Casualty List of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment ... Assault on Fort Wagner ... 1863];
ARC ID 279427, Death and Interment Record for James W. Anderson

Second row:
ARC ID 556263, Black Student in a Black Studies Class ... 1973;
ARC ID 279106, [Page 398 from Testimony of John Julian Brooks in Dorothy E. Davis Case, 1952];
ARC ID 299998, Emancipation Proclamation, 01/01/1863;
ARC ID 194114 [Page 1 of Executive Order for Equal Opportunity in Housing, 11/20/1962];
ARC ID 556233, ... African-American Family at Chicago's Church of the Messiah, 08/1973

Third row:
ARC ID 595055, Agreement of Labor for Truss B. Hall, 08/28/1865;
ARC ID 278352 [Petition of Jacob H. Grove, 05/25/1854];
ARC ID 596089, Harlem Street Scene;
ARC ID 559154, "Washer Woman" by Hale A. Woodruff;
ARC ID 533506, [Jazz Band with 15th New York], 02/12/1919

Fourth row:
ARC ID 521385 [Jefferson Baptist Church in Putnam County, Georgia, 1941];
ARC ID 301674, Judgment in the U.S. Supreme Court Case Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford, 03/06/1857;
ARC ID 650716, Memorandum Terminating the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, 11/16/1972;
ARC ID 556134, [Young Woman in Chicago, 1973];
ARC ID 531137 [Second Lieutenants at Fort Benning, Georgia,] 05/29/1942

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