Civil Rights Documents

Henry VIII had an interest in Ireland but his daughter, Elizabeth I, really impacted the Emerald Isle.  Henry wanted to "colonize" an already-est...

This graphic, from the University of Texas at Austin, depicts where racial groups predominately lived during South Africa's apartheid era.  Based...

Facsimile of the verdict in the trial of United States v. Susan B. Anthony. Click on the image for a better view.

In his book Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, Jean Claude Pressac (originally a Holocaust denier until he reviewed documentary e...

In February of 1945, the military intelligence section of the Southwest Pacific Area of General Headquarters prepared a detailed report on the "Destru...

The U.S. government allowed slave owners to seek-and-find runaways.  This text image depicts an example of advertisements, which owners published...

Two years to the day before he died of a gunshot wound in Los Angeles, Senator Robert F. Kennedy delivered a major speech in South Africa.  On t...

This is an excerpt from the oral history of Sarah Graves, also known as "Aunt Sally." Note that to maintain authenticity, writers transcribed the ora...

This text image depicts another excerpt from the oral history of Sarah Graves (also known as "Aunt Sally").  Interviewed in the 1930s, as part o...

During the 1930s, the federal government hired writers to interview former slaves and to obtain their oral histories. This is page 1 of the oral hist...

This is page 2 of the oral history of Sarah Grudger who claimed to be 121 years old at the time of the interview.  Click on the image for a bett...

This is page 3 of the oral history of Sarah Grudger who claimed to be 121 years old at the time of the interview.  Click on the image for a bett...