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African American Historical Documents and Speeches |
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African American Historical Documents and Speeches
View Historical Documents regarding the arrival of African Americans in 1619 through
Slavery, The Emancipation Proclamation and the entire Civil Rights Era.
Virginia Slave Laws (1660's)
An Act Declaring the Negro, Mulatto, and Indian slaves within this dominion, to be real estate (1705)
Thomas Jefferson, A Bill Concerning Slaves (1779)
An Act For the Gradual Abolition of Slavery (1780)
Benjamin Franklin: An Address to the Public Concerning Slavery (1789)
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793
Venture Smith, Narrative of a Slave's Capture (1798)
State v. Boon (1801)
Black Laws of Ohio (1804)
An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves (1807)
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Frederick Douglass 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro' (1852)
Henry Carey Excerpts from: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign (1853)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Abraham Lincoln Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
The Dred Scott Decision (1856)
Abraham Lincoln Speech on the Dred Scott Decision (1856)
The Emancipation Proclamation (1864)
Louisiana Black Codes, an Act (1865)
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)
Black Codes of Mississippi (1865)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)
15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870)
Plessey v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
The Blood Red Record, A Review of the Horrible Lynchings and Burning of Negroes by Civilized White Men in the United States (1901)
Mary Church Terrell: "What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the United States" (1906)
Documents Relating to African Americans in the Armed Services (1942)
President Harry S. Truman Executive Order 9981 (1948)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Dorothy E. Davis et al v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia et al (1951)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
Emmett Louis Till, Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement (1955)
Executive Order 10730 of Desegregation by President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1957)
President Eisenhower: Federal Court Orders Must be Upheld (1957)
Civil Rights Act of 1957
John F. Kennedy: Civil Rights Message (1963)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1991
"The Negro as an American" June 13, 1963 - Robert Clifton Weaver
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