Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
The collection consists of approximately 20,000 documents.
It is organized into three "General Correspondence" series
which include incoming and outgoing correspondence and
enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and printed
material. Search
this collection, using the phrase "civil rights," to find
items related to civil rights.
The
African-American Experience in Ohio: Selections from the
Ohio Historical Society
This selection of manuscript and printed text and images
illuminates the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920,
a story of slavery and freedom, segregation and integration,
religion and politics, migrations and restrictions, harmony
and discord, and struggles and successes. The collection
contains more than 800 items on the subject of Afro-Americans
Civil rights.
African
American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray
Collection, 1818-1907
This collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review
of African-American history and culture, spanning almost
one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the
early twentieth centuries. It contains twelve items on
the subject of Afro-Americans
civil rights.
American
Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
The collection comprises 253 published narratives by
Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels
in the colonies and the United States and their observations
and opinions about American peoples, places, and society
from about 1750 to 1920. It includes White
and black, the outcome of a visit to the United States,
by Sir George Campbell, M.P. Search
this collection, using the phrase "civil rights,"
to find other items related to civil rights.
An
American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and
Other Printed Ephemera
The collection comprises 28,000 primary-source items
dating from the seventeenth century to the present and
encompasses key events and eras in American history. Rich
in variety, the collection includes proclamations, advertisements,
blank forms, programs, election tickets, catalogs, clippings,
timetables, and menus. It also includes the Civil
rights bill and West Point academy. Letter from Gerrit
Smith to Frederick Douglass. Peterboro, June 27th, 1874.
American
Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the
Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United
States
This research guide includes information about African-American
women’s involvement in the twentieth-century civil
rights movement.
The
Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake
Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925
The collection includes first-person narratives, early
histories, historical biographies, promotional brochures,
and books of photographs that capture in words and pictures
a distinctive region as it developed between the onset
of European settlement and the first quarter of the twentieth
century. It includes twenty-two items related to civil
rights. Search
this collection, using the phrase "civil rights,"
to locate the twenty-two items related to civil rights.
A
Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional
Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
The collection consists of a linked set of published
congressional records of the United States of America
from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress,
1774-1875. Search
this collection, using the phrase "civil rights,"
to locate items related to civil rights.
The
Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925
This compilation of printed texts traces how Southern
African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant
Christianity into the central institution of community
life. It includes The
barbarous decision of the United States Supreme Court
declaring the Civil Rights Act unconstitutional and disrobing
the Colored race of all civil protection : the most cruel
and inhuman verdict against a loyal people in the history
of the world : also the powerful speeches of Hon. Frederick
Douglass and Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, jurist and famous
orator. Search
this collection, using the phrase "civil rights,"
to find other items related to civil rights.
The
Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
The collection presents the papers of the nineteenth-century
African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery
and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken
antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher. It includes
a "Speech
before the Civil Right Mass Meeting" in Washington,
D.C.
From
Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection,
1822-1909
The collection contains 396 pamphlets from the Rare Book
and Special Collections Division, published from 1822
through 1909, by African-American authors and others who
wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation,
Reconstruction, and related topics. The collection includes
twelve items on the subject of Afro-Americans
civil rights.
The
Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
The papers of this author, educator, and political philosopher
are one of the principal sources for the study of modern
intellectual life. The collection includes a "Civil
Rights" lecture.
Jackie
Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
This online presentation introduces a multi faceted man
and some features of complex issues and events related
to his life. The collection features a timeline that includes
“Breaking
the Color Line: 1940-1946."
The
Nineteenth Century in Print: Books
The books in this collection bear nineteenth century
American imprints, dating mainly from between 1850 and
1880. Currently, approximately 1,500 books are included.
It includes the Opinion
of Attorney General Bates on citizenship.
The
Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
The collection presents twenty-three popular periodicals
digitized by Cornell University Library and the Preservation
Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress. The
collection includes Civil
Rights in Court. [The American missionary. / Volume 43,
Issue 8, Aug 1889] and The
U. S. Supreme Court and the Civil Rights Act. [New Englander
and Yale review. / Volume 43, Issue 178, January 1884].
The
Panoramic Photograph Collection
The collection contains approximately four thousand images
featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits.
There are seventeen photographs in the collection on the
subject of African
American Civil Rights.
Prosperity
and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
The collection assembles a wide array of Library of Congress
source materials from the 1920s that document the widespread
prosperity of the Coolidge years, the nation's transition
to a mass consumer economy, and the role of government
in this transition. The collection includes five items
on the subject of Civil
rights.
Slaves
and the Courts, 1740-1860
The collection contains just over a hundred pamphlets
and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning
the difficult and troubling experiences of African and
African-American slaves in the American colonies and the
United States. Search the collection by full-text
using the keyword "civil rights" to locate the
thirteen documents relating to civil rights.
Southern
Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording
Trip
This multiformat ethnographic field collection includes
nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as field notes, dust
jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month,
6,502-mile trip through the southern United States. The
collection includes spirituals
and religious
songs such as This
Little Light o’ Mine.
Votes
for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage
Association Collection, 1848-1921
The collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other
artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. Search
this collection, using the phrase "civil rights,"
to locate items related to civil rights.