Access key US documents, including the Declaration of Independence, online.
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Explore a range of documents from the early 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century covering desegregation, civil rights activities and protests, race relations and community integration, plus African American culture. You will find facsimiles of letters, pamphlets, photos, maps, legal records etc, plus oral history interviews which you can watch.
Read accounts of slave life by over 2,300 former slaves as told to interviewers between 1936 and 1938.
Access over 100,000 documents related to the study of the Presidency from George Washington onwards - includes speeches and foreign policy documents.
This online archive gives you 1,600 documents from 1790 - 2000, arranged in 6 blocks. Documents are brought together from the following sources: American Periodicals, Black Abolitionist Papers, ProQuest History Vault, ProQuest Congressional, Supreme Court Insight and Alexander Street’s Black Thought and Culture.
A rich range of resources related to FDR.
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Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals. You will find material relating to Native American history in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
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Access sound and video clips, together with photos and documents related to JFK (type archive in the search box to get a link to the Digital Archives)
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through to reconstruction.
Access thousands of speeches, sermons, letters and other historic documents by and about Martin Luther King, Jr. The site also includes the King Online Encyclopedia which has information on over 1000 civil rights movement figures and a chronology of the movement.
An archive about racial segregation including photos and letters.
The papers of Rosa Parks (1913-2005) span the years 1866-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1955 to 2000. This collection, hosted by the Library of Congress, contains approximately 7,500 manuscripts, as well as 2,500 photographs. It documents many aspects of Parks's private life and public activism on behalf of civil rights for African Americans.
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A wide ranging archive which includes US Supreme Court records, books, pamphlets, newspapers and facsimiles of letters by the English abolitionist William Wilberforce etc
Film clips and online sources with links to other slavery sites.
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