Summer 1997, Vol. 29, No. 2
This issue focuses on the
use of federal records in
African American historical
research. Sixteen articles
by NARA staff and other historians
explore the depth and breadth
of material in the National
Archives relative to African
Americans. This issue examines
the Civil War and Reconstruction,
labor issues, civil rights,
pictorial records, and research
aids.
This issue is out of print
and not available for purchase,
but you can read all of the
articles online.
Contents
Prologue in Perspective: Voices of
African Americans in Federal Records
John W. Carlin
Dedication: In Memory of Sara Dunlap Jackson,
May 28, 1919-April 19, 1991
Ira Berlin
Introduction
Institutions of Memory and the Documentation of African Americans
in Federal Records
Walter B. Hill, Jr.
Budge Weidman
Freedmen's Bureau Records: An Overview
Elaine C. Everly
From Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black Women's
History in the Civil War Era
Noralee Frankel
Slave Emancipation Through the Prism of Archives Records
Joseph P. Reidy
Labor Issues
African Americans and the American Labor Movement
James Gilbert Cassedy
The Panama Canal: The African American Experience
Patrice C. Brown
Black Domestics During the Depression: Workers, Organizers,
Social Commentators
Phyllis Palmer
Civil Rights
Documenting the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Decade of
the Sixties
Geraldine N. Phillips
An Archival Odyssey: The Search for Jackie Robinson
John Vernon
Pictorial Records
From Sophie's Alley to the White House: Rediscovering the Visions
of Pioneering Black Government Photographers
Nicholas Natanson
The Lions' History: Researching World War II Images of African
Americans
Barbara Lewis Burger
The USIA Motion Picture Collection and African American History:
A Reference Review
Donald Roe
Research Aids
A Guiding Light
Debra Newman Ham
Documenting African Americans in the Records of Military Agencies
Lisha Penn
Genealogy
The Freedman's Savings and Trust Company and African American Genealogical ResearchReginald Washington
Articles published in Prologue do not necessarily represent the views of NARA or of any other agency of the United States Government. |