Civil Rights Documents

This is page 4 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 5 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...

Among other things in his December 8th report, Hopkins notes - at page two - the FBI's efforts to get a confession from Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price: ...

In his December 8, 1964 investigation report, H. L. Hopkins - working for the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission - reports that Michael ("Mickey...

In February of 1820, the U.S. Senate passed an amendment which would prohibit slavery in the newly purchased Louisiana territory.  An exception, ...

To resolve the issue of admitting Missouri as a "slave state," thereby ending the senatorial "balance of power" between "free and slave states," the S...

This image is page 20 of a book describing the kidnapping of Africans who were transported to the "new world" aboard a ship called La Amistad.   ...

Image of the Slave Roster from the records of the Molly slave ship.  Maintained by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, U.K. From the Unders...

In July of 1917, not long after the US entered WWI, the NAACP invited African-Americans to march in a silent protest held in New York City.

This document, filed with the U.S. District Court for the State of Maryland, was permitted under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law.  It was submitted a...

This image depicts the second page of a bill of sale by which a slave owner named Jacob Cook purchased four slaves "for life."   The slaves, of ...

Since it became America's capital city, circa 1800, Washington City had slaves. This compendium includes laws impacting slavery in the District.