Library
Every resource in the archive — aggregated and cited for further study.
15 resources
Citizenship and equal protection, 1868.
2,300+ first-person accounts of slavery and 500 photographs of formerly enslaved people.
The 1954 decision ending school segregation.
1,200+ recorded interviews and transcripts with civil-rights participants.
The 1655 Virginia court record in the Johnson v. Parker case.
The 1857 Supreme Court decision.
The full text of Lincoln's 1863 proclamation.
~7,400 items: correspondence, speeches, and writings of Frederick Douglass.
Federal records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
The original 1865 order announcing emancipation in Texas.
Primary documents on the 1896 decision that constitutionalized "separate but equal."
~7,500 manuscript items and 2,500 photographs documenting Parks's life and the movement.
The amendment abolishing slavery, ratified December 6, 1865.
Service records of ~179,000 men of the United States Colored Troops.
Audio recordings (1932–1975) of formerly enslaved people across nine states.