 |
1860s:
Lyrics
to many Negro Spirituals |
|
|
1860s:
"Reconstruction" - Peter Cooper to President Johnson - leaflet (4
pages) |
|
|
1864:
Democratic Party Platform
Republican Party Platform |
|
|
1865:
13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
|
|
1865:
The Absolute Equality of All Before the Law - William
Dickson |
|
|
1865:
Amnesty Proclamation - President Andrew Johnson |
|
|
1865:
Black Codes of
Louisiana |
|
|
1865:
Black Codes of
Mississippi |
|
|
1865:
"The Black Laws" - editorial in
Harper's Weekly (2/11) |
|
|
1865:
Colonel Samuel Thomas describes the attitudes of
ex-Confederates toward the freedmen |
|
|
1865:
Committee of Freedmen on Edisto Island, South Carolina, to the
Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner; the Commissioner's Reply; and the
Committee to the President (10/20-21) |
|
|
1865:
Conditions in the Post-War South - letter by Edwin H. McCaleb |
|
|
1865:
"The Election in New Jersey" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly
(11/25) |
|
|
1865:
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton to the Editor, "This is The Negro's Hour," National
Anti-Slavery Standard, NY (12/26) |
|
|
1865:
"The Error of the South" -
The Old Guard / Volume 3, Issue 12,
Dec 1865 |
|
|
1865:
"Franchise- And Not This Man!" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly (8/5) |
|
|
1865:
"Forty Acres and
a Mule" -
Special Field
Order No. 15 - Order by the Commander of the Military Division of the
Mississippi (1/15) |
|
|
1865:
Jourdan Anderson declines his former master's
invitation to return to his plantation - letter |
|
|
1865:
Mississippi Black Codes |
|
|
1865:
"Pardon-Should I Trust These Men?" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly (8/5) |
|
|
1865:
Plain Counsels for Freedmen - Clinton B. Fisk |
|
|
1865:
Report on the Condition of the South - Carl Schurz |
|
|
1865:
"The Right Way, the Best Way" - editorial in
Harper's Weekly (6/3) |
|
|
1865:
"Slaveocracy and Bondocracy" -
The Old Guard / Volume 3, Issue
10, Oct 1865 |
|
|
1865:
"The South Poor in Cash, the North Bankrupt in Honor" -
The Old
Guard / Volume 3, Issue 9, Sept |
|
|
1865:
"Sovereignty of States Fully Considered" -
The Old Guard /
Volume 3, Issue 8, Aug 1865 |
|
|
1865:
"Union, Disunion, and Reunion" -
The Old Guard / Volume 3,
Issue 6, June 1865 |
|
|
1865:
"What Shall Become of the Freedmen?" - from the
Franklin
Repository
(Chambersburg, PA), 2/8 |
|
|
1865:
"White Supremacy and Negro Subordination" -
The Old Guard /
Volume 3, Issue 5, May 1865 |
|
|
1865-66:
Diary of Jared Nash |
|
|
1865, 1866:
Report on Land Reform in the South Carolina Islands -
James C. Beecher |
|
|
1865-67?:
Circular, to the friends of Jefferson Davis |
|
|
late 1860s:
"I'm a Good
'Ole Rebel" - song lyrics by Major Innes Randolph |
|
|
1866:
14th
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution (ratified in 1868) |
|
|
1866:
"The Civil Rights Bill" - editorial in
Harper's Weekly (4/14) |
|
|
1866-1875:
Civil Rights Acts |
|
|
1866:
"Economise and pay your debt! Restore the South and increase your
resources. Our national debt is to be paid" - broadside |
|
|
1866:
Ex
parte Milligan |
|
|
1866:
The Freedmen’s Bureau Report
on the Memphis Race Riots of 1866 -
T. W. Gilbreth
(5/22) |
|
|
1866:
"The Burning of a Freedmen's School" - picture in Harper's
Weekly (5/26) |
|
|
1866:
First Reconstruction Act (3/2) |
|
|
1866:
"Gen. Sherman's Officers Among the Ladies of Raleigh" -
The Old
Guard / Volume 4, Issue 6, June |
|
|
1866:
"General Sherman in Raleigh" -
The Old Guard / Volume 4, Issue
4, Apr 1866 |
|
|
1866:
"Holy
Horror of Mrs. McCaffraty in a Washington City Street Passenger Car" -
political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (2/24) |
|
|
1866:
"How the Democratic Party Fell to Pieces" -
The Old Guard /
Volume 4, Issue 8, Aug 1866 |
|
|
1866:
"Impeachment and General Butler" -
Harper's Weekly (12/15) |
|
|
1866:
"Johnson Kicking the Freedmen's Bureau" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly (April 14) |
|
|
1866:
"King
Andy" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (11/3) |
|
|
1866-68?:
KKK
political cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly |
|
|
1866:
"Making Treason Odious" - editorial in
Harper's Weekly (6/2) |
|
|
1866:
"The Memphis Riots" - picture and news article in
Harper's Weekly
(5/26) |
|
|
1866:
Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End |
|
|
1866: "Reconstruction" - article by Frederick Douglass in
The Atlantic
Monthly |
|
|
1866:
Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction (6/20) |
|
|
1866:
"Review of President Johnson's Position on State Sovereignty" -
The
Old Guard Volume 4, Issue 2, Feb
|
|
|
1866:
"Some
Facts about 'Southern Aggression'" - The Old Guard / Volume 4,
Issue 1, Jan 1866 |
|
|
1866:
"Three
Months Among the Reconstructionists" - Atlantic Monthly (Feb.) |
|
|
1866:
"The Trial of the Government" - editorial in
Harper's Weekly
(5/26) |
|
|
1866:
"Woman's
Duty to Vote," Address at the Woman's Rights Convention,
NY (5/10) |
|
|
1866-68:
Various documents on Reconstruction and the Impeachment of President
Andrew Johnson |
|
|
1867:
Addresses and Ceremonies at the New Year's Festival to
the Freedmen (1/5) |
|
|
1867:
Appeal to Congress
for Impartial Suffrage -
Frederick Douglass |
|
|
1867:
Appealing to Racism in Arguing for Female Suffrage |
|
|
1867:
"Education in the Southern States" - editorial in
Harper's Weekly
(11/9) |
|
|
1867:
"Facetiae - Andy 'Reconstructing' the Reconstructionists" -
The Old
Guard / Volume 5, Issue 11, Nov |
|
|
1867:
"The First Vote" - cover
of Harper's Weekly (11/16) |
|
|
1867:
Letter from Harriet Jacobs to Ednah Dow Cheney |
|
|
1867?:
President Johnson's love for the soldier - braodside
image |
|
|
1867:
Proceedings of the First Anniversary of the American
Equal Rights Association |
|
|
1867:
Second Reconstruction Act (3/23) |
|
|
1867:
"Sixteen reasons why our Republican party should not run Gen. Grant
for president in 1868. [Sixteen reasons] American Republicans" -
broadside |
|
|
1867:
Speech of Sojourner Truth at the
First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association NYC
(5/9) |
|
|
1867:
Tenure of Office Act (3/2) |
|
|
1867:
Thaddeus Stevens in Support of Black Suffrage |
|
|
1867:
Third Reconstruction Act (3/23) |
|
|
1868:
Admission ticket to the Senate impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
(4/1)
another type of ticket |
|
|
1868:
Andrew Johnson's Impeachment - sketch by Theodore R. Davis |
|
|
1868:
Articles of Impeachment Against Andrew Johnson |
|
|
1868:
Closing Arguments in the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson -
Sen. Thaddeus Stevens |
|
|
1868:
Debate in the House on the Impeachment Resolution (2/25) |
|
|
1868:
Democratic Party
Platform
Republican Party Platform |
|
|
1868:
Dressmaker and Former Slave Elizabeth Keckley (ca.1818-1907), Tells
How She Gained Her Freedom |
|
|
1868:
"Effect of the Vote on the Eleventh Article of Impeachment" -
political cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly |
|
|
1868:
Final Vote on Johnson's Impeachment -
The New York Times -
front page and full text (5/16) |
|
|
1868:
Fourth Reconstruction Act (3/11) |
|
|
1868:
"Freedom's
campaign songs. No. 1-4. New York" - broadside
images |
|
|
1868:
Front Page (and full text) of
The New York Times on President
Johnson's Impeachment (2/24) |
|
|
1868:
"How It Would Be If Some Ladies Had Their Own Way" - political cartoon
in Harper's Weekly (5/16) |
|
|
1868:
Impeachment Trial Ticket (3/13) |
|
|
1868:
"Leaders of the Democratic Party" - political cartoon |
|
|
1868:
Little
Women - Louisa May Alcott (full text) |
|
|
1868:
"The Modern Gulliver Among the Lilliputians" - political cartoon
from Harper's Weekly (9/12) |
|
|
1868:
"The Modern Samson"- political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly
(10/3) |
|
|
1868:
On the Regeneration of the South - Daniel Ullmann |
|
|
1868:
"One Vote Less" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly (8/8) |
|
|
1868:
Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan |
|
|
1868:
President Johnson as Samson - political cartoon - Thomas Nast in
Harper's Weekly |
|
|
1868:
President Johnson Responds to Impeachment -
The New York Times
- front page and full text (3/23) |
|
|
1868:
Ragged Dick - Horatio Alger, Jr. |
|
|
1868:
Senate Trial Rules for the Impeachment of President Johnson |
|
|
1868:
"Sickly Democrat" - political cartoon in Harper's Weekly (7/11) |
|
|
1868:
"The Situation" - political cartoon showing a cannon aimed at
President Johnson - Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly |
|
|
1868:
Speech at the South Carolina
Constitutional Convention by
Richard H. Cain (2/17) |
|
|
1868:
"This Is A White Man's Government" - political cartoon in
Harper's
Weekly (9/28) |
|
|
1868:
"This Little Boy..." - political cartoon of President Johnson - Thomas
Nast in Harper's Weekly |
|
|
1868:
"'Tis But a Change in Banner" - political cartoon in
Harper's
Weekly
(9/26) |
|
|
1868:
Trial Record of the Senate Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson |
|
|
1868:
"Victory!" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly (10/3) |
|
|
1869:
15th
Amendment to the U. S. Constitution (ratified in 1870) |
|
|
1869:
A Democratic View of the 15th Amendment Proposition -
speech by G.W. Woodward (D-PA) in the House (2/20) |
|
|
1869:
Act
to Strengthen Public Credit (3/18) |
|
|
1869:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Black Suffrage |
|
|
1869:
Excerpt from The Life of Jefferson Davis -
Edward Pollard
|
|
|
1869:
Ex parte
McCardle (commentary) |
|
|
1869:
"Farewell! A Long Farewell!" - political cartoon in Harper's
Weekly (3/13) |
|
|
1869:
First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant |
|
|
1869:
"Our Established Church" - Catholic World (August) |
|
|
1869:
Republican Support for Black Suffrage - from Speech of
J. M.
Broomall (R-PA) in the House (1/30) |
|
|
1869:
"Republicans! Democrats! A word with you about negro suffrage ...
[Signed] Oliver Ellsworth" - broadside |
|
|
1869:
"Slavery in Massachusetts. Letter from Mr. Moore. To the editor of the
Historical magazine. ... George H. Moore" - broadside |
|
|
1869:
"Temperance" - Gerrit Smith to John Stuart Mill - broadside |
|
|
1870:
"'All men free and equal.' The XVth amendment proclaimed. Message to
Congress. - Proclamation of the President" - broadside |
|
|
1870:
Horace Greeley
to Josephine Griffing (9/7) |
|
|
1870:
Ku Klux Costumes in North Carolina - From engraving (after a
photograph) in G. B. Raum's The Existing Conflict |
|
|
1870:
Letter from Judge Tourgee to Senator Abbott (NC) - on the KKK |
|
|
1870:
"Negro
Exodusters en route to Kansas, fleeing from the yellow fever, "
Photomural from engraving.
Harpers
Weekly |
|
|
1870:
Private Thomas Long assesses the meaning of black
military service during the Civil War - letter |
|
|
1870: "Time Works Wonders" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly
(4/9) |
|
|
1871:
E.L. Godkin Asesses Reconstruction -
The Nation. 13: 336
(12/7) |
|
|
1871:
"The Ku Klux Klan" - editorial in
Harper's Weekly (11/4) |
|
|
1871:
Ku Klux Klan Violence in Georgia |
|
|
1871: "Mr. Sumner's Civil Rights Bill" - editorial in
Harper's Weekly
(12/20) |
|
|
1872:
Abram Colby, Testimony in Washington D.C., 1872. In
Testimony
Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of
Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States
|
|
|
1872:
"Children Cry for It" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly
(2/3) |
|
|
1872:
"David and Goliath" - political cartoon - Harper's Weekly |
|
|
1872:
Democratic Party
Platform
Republican Party Platform |
|
|
1872:
Equality before the law protected by national statute - Speeches of
Hon. Chas. Sumner, of Massachusetts, on his supplementary civil rights
bill, as an amendment to the civil rights bill. In the Senate, Jan.
15, 17 and 31, Feb. 5, and May 21, 1872 |
|
|
1872:
"The Farmer Candidate en Route" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly
(5/4) |
|
|
1872: "Grand Larceny versus Petty Theft" - political cartoon in
Leslie's Illustrated (9/28) |
|
|
1872:
"Grant's First and Last Vote" - political cartoon in
Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper (9/14) |
|
|
1872:
"A Leaf from History for our Foreign-Born Citizens" - political
cartoon in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (9/28) |
|
|
1872:
"Lincoln, the Emancipator" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly
(4/20) |
|
|
1872:
"The Man with the (Carpet) Bags" - anonymous cartoon in
Puck |
|
|
1872:
The Nation, "The State of the South" |
|
|
1872:
Plea for Amnesty by
Sen. Carl
Schurz (R-MO) - Speech in the United States Senate (1/30) |
|
|
1872:
"Red Hot" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly (7/13) |
|
|
1872:
The Rev. Elias Hill is attacked by the Ku Klux Klan -
letter |
|
|
1872:
Slaughterhouse Cases |
|
|
1872:
Speeches, lectures, and letters by Wendell Phillips |
|
|
1872:
Testimony by
an Alabama Freedman before the Southern Claims Commission (7/31) |
|
|
1873:
Coinage Act (2/12) |
|
|
1873:
The Credit Mobilier Scandal Recounted |
|
|
1873:
Second Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant |
|
|
1874:
"Coloured Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly (3/14) |
|
|
1874:
"An Undoubted Right" - editorial in
Harper's Weekly (5/30) |
|
|
1874:
"Everything Points to a Democratic Victory This Fall" - political
cartoon in Harper's Weekly (10/31) |
|
|
1874:
"Will the American people never cease to oppress and torture the
helpless poor? Peterboro" (12/12) - broadside |
|
|
1874:
"Worse than Slavery" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly
(10/24) |
|
|
1875:
Obituary of Andrew
Johnson - New York Times (8/1) |
|
|
1876:
"A Call for Tweed" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly
(8/19) |
|
|
1876:
Democratic Party
Platform
Republican Party Platform |
|
|
1876:
Grant's Farewell Address to Congress |
|
|
1876:
"The Ignorant Vote" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly
(12/9) |
|
|
1876:
"In Self-Defense" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly
(10/28) |
|
|
1876:
Letter of Acceptance of the
Nomination for the Presidency -
Rutherford B. Hayes
(7/8)
|
|
|
1876:
Letter to D.H. Chamberlain, Governor of South
Carolina from Ulysses S. Grant (7/26) |
|
|
1876:
Margaret Garner kills her daughter rather than see her
returned to slavery |
|
|
1876:
Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln - Frederick Douglass |
|
|
1876:
"The Political Red Riding-Hood" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly
(9/2) |
|
|
1876: "Slippery Sam" - political cartoon in
Harper's Weekly (8/12) |
|
|
1876:
U.S. v.
Cruikshank |
|
|
1877:
"Compromise, Indeed!" - political cartoon in
Harper's
Weekly
(1/27) |
|
|
1877:
Inaugural
Address of Rutherford B. Hayes |
|
|
1877:
"A Truce, Not a Compromise" - political cartoon in
Harper's
Weekly
(2/17) |
|
|
1879:
"The Education of Freedmen" - Harriet Beecher Stowe |
|
|
1879:
Ex Parte Virginia |
|
|
1879:
"The Negro Exodus" - James B. Bunnion in
The Atlantic
Monthly 44 (1879): 222-230 |
|
|
1880:
Frederick Douglass assesses the condition of the
freedmen in 1880 |
|
|
1880:
Testimony Before U.S. Senate Regarding the Agricultural
Labor Force in the South - James T. Rapier |
|
|
1881:
The Color Line - Frederick Douglass |
|
|
1881:
Description of Sharecropping Tenants on a Georgia Plantation |
|
|
1881:
"The Effects of Negro Suffrage" - H. H. Chalmers |
|
|
1881:
Excerpt from On the Picket Line of Freedom -
Albert T. Morgan |
|
|
1881:
"My Escape from Slavery" - Frederick Douglass |
|
|
1881:
Uncle
Remus -- Legends of the Old Plantation |
|
|
1882:
Share-Crop
Contract |
|
|
1882-1965:
"Lynchings" - chart |
|
|
1883:
Civil Rights Cases |
|
|
1883:
A Meeting and Discussion Concerning the Civil Rights Act of 1883 |
|
|
1886:
"The Free Negroes of North Carolina" - David Dodge |
|
|
1886:
"The Future of the Colored Race" - Frederick Douglass |
|
|
1886:
"The New South"
- speech by Henry W. Grady (12/22) |
|
|
1888:
The Race Problem in America -
Alexander Crummell
|
|
|
1889:
Divided We Conquer - A White Plantation Owner
Undermines the Knights of Labor |
|
|
1889:
Henry Grady Sells the “New South” |
|
|
1880s:
“Almost Broken Spirits” - Farmers in the New South |
|
|
1880s:
The South’s Recovery - Who Paid the Price of Success |
|
|
1880s-1960s:
Samples of Jim Crow Laws |
|
|
1890:
Election
Methods in the South - Former Congressman Robert Smalls
(SC) |
|
|
1890:
Mississippi Constitution |
|
|
1891:
What the Southern Negro is Doing for Himself
- Samuel J. Barrows |
|
|
1892:
Lynch Law in
All its Phases - Ida B. Wells |
|
|
1892:
Lynching in Arkansas |
|
|
1892:
The Lynching of Bob Harper |
|
|
1892:
United We Stand - Tom Watson on Interracial Southern
Populism |
|
|
1893:
Burned at the Stake - A Black Man Pays for a Town’s
Outrage |
|
|
1893:
History is a Weapon - Ida B. Wells |
|
|
1895:
Atlanta Exposition Address - Booker T. Washington |
|
|
1895:
A Black Lawyer Argues Against Disenfranchisement |
|
|
1895:
"A Red Record:
Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings
in the United States, 1892-1893-1894" - Ida B. Wells
|
|
|
1895:
A Word of Warning - A Former Slave Urges Constitutional
Caution |
|
|
1896:
"The Negro's Place in History" - Prof. Willis Boughton |
|
|
1896:
One African-American Dreams About Rebuilding the South |
|
|
1896:
Plessy v. Ferguson |
|
|
1896:
Plessy v. Ferguson - Justice
Harlan Dissents |
|
|
1897:
"Strivings of the Negro People" - W. E. B. Du Bois in
The Atlantic
Monthly |
|
|
1898:
Killing the Messenger - Ida Wells-Barnett Protests a
Postmaster’s Murder |
|
|
1898:
The Murder of Postmaster Baker |
|
|
1898:
Reading the Fine Print - The Grandfather Clause in
Louisiana |
|
|
1899:
"A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South" - W. E. B. Du Bois in
Atlantic Monthly (Jan.) |
|
|
1899:
Cumming v. Board of Education of Richmond County, GA |
|
|
1899:
The Vindication of the South - B. B. Munford |
|
|
1900:
Lynch Law in America - Ida B. Wells |
|
|
1900:
"Paths
of Hope for the Negro: Practical Suggestions of a Southerner" - Jerome
Dowd in Century Magazine (Dec.) |
|
|
1900:
Poll tax receipt (Arkansas) |
|
|
1900:
“Their Own Hotheadedness” - Senator Benjamin
R.“Pitchfork Ben” Tillman Justifies Violence Against Southern Blacks |
|
|
1901:
"Civilization in Southern Mills" -
Mother Jones - it originally appeared in the International
Socialist Review (March) |
|
|
1901:
"The Freedman's Bureau" - W. E. B. Du Bois in
The Atlantic Monthly
87 (1901): 354-365 |
|
|
1901:
George H. White's Farewell Address to Congress, Washington, DC (1/29)
- first black Senator during Reconstruction |
|
|
1901:
Making
the Atlanta Compromise - Booker T. Washington Is Invited to Speak |
|
|
1901:
"No
White Man to Lose His Vote" - 1901 flyer - Virginia Constitutional
Convention |
|
|
1901:
“Equal and Exact Justice to Both Races” - Booker T.
Washington on the Reaction to his Atlanta Compromise Speech |
|
|
1901:
Up From
Slavery: An Autobiography - Booker T. Washington (full text) |
|
|
1902:
Burned into Memory- An African American Recalls Mob
Violence in Early 20th century Florida (recalled in 1985) |
|
|
1902:
Disfranchisement Debate in the Virginia Legislature |
|
|
1902:
"Of the Training of Black Men" - W. E. B. Du Bois in
The Atlantic Monthly 90 (1902): 289-297. |
|
|
1902:
"The Free Colored People of North
Carolina" by Charles W. Chesnutt in
The Southern Workman |
|
|
1904: "'Jim
Crow' Street-Car Law Set to Catch Negroes" - The
Richmond
Planet
(4/30) |
|
|
1904:
Richmond African Americans Boycott Streetcars |
|
|
1906:
Defending Home and Hearth - Walter White Recalls the
1906 Atlanta Race Riot (as recalled in 1948) |
|
|
1908:
Children in the Cotton Mills (photos) |
|
|
1914-1930:
Table on Per Capita Annual Expenditure on Public School
Education in the South, 1914-1915 and 1929-1930 |
|
|
1915:
An NAACP Official Calls for Censorship of
The Birth of a Nation |
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1938:
WPA Federal Writers Project (Oral History) interview with Mrs. Ella
Gooding (age 80) and Mr. Robert Gooding (age 82), June 28 |
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1955:
Mississippi Literacy Test |
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1965:
Alabama Literacy Test |
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1965?:
Louisiana Literacy Test |
