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African American History

Editor In Chief: Claudrena Harold, University of Virginia

 Outside Reading
Textbook Articles How to Read Primary Sources
Includes Instructor Note
Documents John Rolfe: Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys
Documents Virginia's Act XII: Negro Women's Children to Serve according to the Condition of the Mother
Documents Virginia's Act III: Baptism Does Not Exempt Slaves from Bondage
Documents James Oglethorpe: “An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina”
Documents Daniel Horsmanden: The New-York Conspiracy
Documents Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
Documents Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court
Documents Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
Documents Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia
Documents Slavery Clauses in the U.S. Constitution
Documents Alexander Falconbridge: An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
Documents The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Documents Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
Documents Richard Allen: “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice”
Documents Prince Hall: A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge
Documents Ohio Black Code
Documents Missouri Compromise
Documents Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm: First Freedom's Journal Editorial
Documents David Walker: Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
Includes Instructor Note
Documents The Confessions of Nat Turner
Documents Henry Highland Garnet: "An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America"
Documents William Lloyd Garrison: "Address to the Friends of Freedom and Emancipation in the United States"
Documents Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Documents Frederick Douglass: First Editorial of the North Star
Includes Instructor Note
Documents Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Documents Compromise of 1850
Documents Martin Delany: The Condition, Elevation, ... and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
Documents Frederick Douglass: "Fourth of July" Speech
Documents Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup
Documents Dred Scott v. Sandford
Documents Wendell Phillips: "Crispus Attucks"
Documents Abraham Lincoln: "House Divided" Speech
Documents Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Documents Emancipation Proclamation
Documents Frederick Douglass: "Men of Color, To Arms!"
Documents U.S. War Department General Order 143 Establishing the Bureau of U.S. Colored Troops
Documents Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Documents Andrew Johnson: Veto of the Civil Rights Act
Documents Henry McNeal Turner: Speech on His Expulsion from the Georgia Legislature
Documents Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Documents Ku Klux Klan Act
Documents Anna Julia Cooper: "Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race"
Documents Booker T. Washington: Atlanta Exposition Address
Documents Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: "Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women"
Documents Plessy v. Ferguson
Includes Instructor Note
Documents Ida B. Wells: "Lynch Law in America"
Documents Ida B. Wells: "Lynching and the Excuse for It"
Documents W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
Documents Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles
Documents W. E. B. Du Bois: "Returning Soldiers"
Documents Claude McKay: “If We Must Die”
Documents Cyril Briggs: Summary of the Program and Aims of the African Blood Brotherhood
Documents Marcus Garvey: "The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association"
Documents Alain Locke: "Enter the New Negro"
Documents James Weldon Johnson: "Harlem: The Culture Capital"
Documents Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: "The Negro Woman and the Ballot"
Documents W. E. B. Du Bois: "Marxism and the Negro Problem"
Documents John P. Davis: "A Black Inventory of the New Deal"
Documents Robert Clifton Weaver: "The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts"
Documents National Labor Relations Act
Documents Richard Wright: “Blueprint for Negro Writing”
Documents Charles Hamilton Houston: Petition in Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada
Documents Mary McLeod Bethune: "What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?"
Documents A. Philip Randolph: "Call to Negro America to March on Washington"
Documents United Nations Charter
Documents To Secure These Rights
Documents Harry S. Truman: Address to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Documents W. E. B. Du Bois: An Appeal to the World
Documents Brown v. Board of Education
Documents Malcolm X: "Message to the Grass Roots"
Documents Fannie Lou Hamer: Testimony at the Democratic National Convention
Documents Malcolm X: "The Ballot or the Bullet"
Documents Voting Rights Act of 1965
Documents Lyndon Baines Johnson: Speech to Congress on Civil Rights
Documents J. Edgar Hoover: Memo on Martin Luther King
Documents Stokely Carmichael: "Black Power"
Documents Stokely Carmichael: “What We Want”
Documents Black Panther Party: “What We Want, What We Believe”
Documents Ella Baker: "The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle"
Documents Shirley Chisholm: Speech in Favor of the Equal Rights Amendment
Documents Angela Davis: "Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation"
Documents National Black Political Convention Gary Declaration
Documents Shirley Chisholm: "The Black Woman in Contemporary America"
Documents Barbara Jordan: "Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good?"
Documents Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Documents Louis Farrakhan: Million Man March Pledge
Documents One America in the 21st Century
Documents Adolph L. Reed, Jr.: “When Government Shrugs: Lessons of Katrina”
Documents Barack Obama: "A More Perfect Union"