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The First Colored Senator and Representatives, in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States.
The lithograph depicts a group of seven African American men who were members of the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States. It was possible for these men to join Congress after the passing of the 15th Amendment, which granted that men of any…
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)
The contents of the Thirteenth Amendment
The Weekly Messenger. Volume XI, May 23, 1896
A portion of a newspaper that includes a reaction to the Plessy vs Ferguson ruling in 1896.
The Saginaw Evening News
The Saginaw Evening News (out of Saginaw, Michigan) published on October 17th, 1883.
[Frederick Douglass] / C.F. Conly Photographer, 465 Washington St., Boston.
Reproduction of a portrait of Frederick Douglass
Speech before the Civil Right Mass Meeting, Washington, D. C. (specifically page 7 and 8)
The beginning of Frederick Douglass's speech regarding the passing of the Civil Rights Cases of 1883.
A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. Sign at bus station. Rome, Georgia
Photo taken of a sign depicted "Colored Waiting Room"
The Appeal. [volume], November 12, 1904, Image 4
A portion of "The Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper" published on November 12, 1904.
Cleveland Gazette: Civil Rights Law
Four published pages from the Cleveland Gazette of Ohio discussing the 1883 Civil Rights Cases
