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Milestone Documents in African American History

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John Rolfe’s Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys: Document Analysis




John Rolfe’s Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys: The Full Text




Virginia’s Act XII: Negro Women’s Children to Serve according to the Condition of the Mother: Document Analysis




Virginia’s Act XII: Negro Women’s Children to Serve according to the Condition of the Mother: The Full Text




Virginia’s Act III: Baptism Does Not Exempt Slaves from Bondage: Document Analysis




Virginia’s Act III: Baptism Does Not Exempt Slaves from Bondage: The Full Text




“A Minute against Slavery, Addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting”: Document Analysis




“A Minute Against Slavery, Addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting”: The Full Text




Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court: Document Analysis




Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court: The Full Text




Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery: Document Analysis




Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery: The Full Text




Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia: Document Analysis




Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia: The Full Text




Slavery Clauses in the U.S. Constitution: Document Analysis




Slavery Clauses in the U.S. Constitution: The Full Text




Benjamin Banneker’s Letter to Thomas Jefferson: Document Analysis




Benjamin Banneker’s Letter to Thomas Jefferson: The Full Text




Fugitive Slave Act of 1793: Document Analysis




Fugitive Slave Act of 1793: The Full Text




Ohio Black Code: Document Analysis




Ohio Black Code: The Full Text




Peter Williams, Jr.’s “Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade”: Document Analysis




Peter Williams, Jr.’s “Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade”: The Full Text




David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World: Document Analysis




David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World: The Full Text




John Woolman’s Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes: Document Analysis




John Woolman’s Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes: The Full Text




Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation: Document Analysis




Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation: The Full Text




Prince Hall: A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge: Document Analysis




Prince Hall: A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge: The Full Text




Richard Allen: “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice”: Document Analysis




Richard Allen: “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice”: The Full Text




Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm’s First Freedom’s Journal Editorial: Document Analysis




Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm’s First Freedom’s Journal Editorial: The Full Text




State v. Mann: Document Analysis




State v. Mann: The Full Text




The Confessions of Native American Turner: Document Analysis




The Confessions of Native American Turner: The Full Text




William Lloyd Garrison’s First Liberator Editorial: Document Analysis




William Lloyd Garrison’s First Liberator Editorial: The Full Text




United States v. Amistad: Document Analysis




United States v. Amistad: The Full Text




Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Document Analysis




Prigg v. Pennsylvania: The Full Text




Henry Highland Garnet: “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America”: Document Analysis




Henry Highland Garnet: “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America”: The Full Text




William Wells Brown’s “Slavery As It Is”: Document Analysis




William Wells Brown’s “Slavery As It Is”: The Full Text




First Editorial of the North Star: Document Analysis




First Editorial of the North Star: The Full Text




Frederick Douglass’s “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”: Document Analysis




Frederick Douglass’s “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”: The Full Text




Roberts v. City of Boston: Document Analysis




Roberts v. City of Boston: The Full Text




Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Document Analysis




Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: The Full Text




Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?”: Document Analysis




Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?”: The Full Text




Martin Delany: The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States: Document Analysis




Martin Delany: The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States: The Full Text




Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself: Document Analysis




Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself: The Full Text




Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup: Document Analysis




Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup: The Full Text




Dred Scott v. Sandford: Document Analysis




Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Full Text




John S. Rock’s “Whenever the Colored Man Is Elevated, It Will Be by His Own Exertions”: Document Analysis




John S. Rock’s “Whenever the Colored Man Is Elevated, It Will Be by His Own Exertions”: The Full Text




Virginia Slave Code: Document Analysis




Virginia Slave Code: The Full Text




Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Document Analysis




Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: The Full Text




War Department General Order 143: Document Analysis




War Department General Order 143: The Full Text




Emancipation Proclamation: Document Analysis




Emancipation Proclamation: The Full Text




Frederick Douglass: “Men of Color, To Arms!”: Document Analysis




Frederick Douglass: “Men of Color, To Arms!”: The Full Text




Black Code of Mississippi: Document Analysis




Black Code of Mississippi: The Full Text




William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15: Document Analysis




William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15: The Full Text




Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Document Analysis




Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: The Full Text




Henry McNeal Turner’s Speech on His Expulsion from the Georgia Legislature: Document Analysis




Henry McNeal Turner’s Speech on His Expulsion from the Georgia Legislature: The Full Text




Richard Harvey Cain’s “All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights”: Document Analysis




Richard Harvey Cain’s “All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights”: The Full Text




Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Document Analysis




Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: The Full Text




Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Document Analysis




Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: The Full Text




George H. White’s Farewell Address to Congress: Document Analysis




George H. White's Farewell Address to Congress: The Full Text




W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk: Document Analysis




W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk: The Full Text




Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles: Document Analysis




Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles: The Full Text




Theodore Roosevelt’s Brownsville Legacy Special Message to the Senate: Document Analysis




Theodore Roosevelt’s Brownsville Legacy Special Message to the Senate: The Full Text




Monroe Trotter’s Protest to Woodrow Wilson: Document Analysis




Monroe Trotter’s Protest to Woodrow Wilson: The Full Text




Guinn v. United States: Document Analysis




Guinn v. United States: The Full Text




Act in Relation to the Organization of a Colored Regiment in the City of New York: Document Analysis




Act in Relation to the Organization of a Colored Regiment in the City of New York: The Full Text




William Pickens: “The Kind of Democracy the Negro Expects”: Document Analysis




William Pickens: “The Kind of Democracy the Negro Expects”: The Full Text




Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: Document Analysis




Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: The Full Text




Walter F. White: “The Eruption of Tulsa”: Document Analysis




Walter F. White: “The Eruption of Tulsa”: The Full Text




Cyril Briggs’s Summary of the Program and Aims of the African Blood Brotherhood: Document Analysis




Cyril Briggs’s Summary of the Program and Aims of the African Blood Brotherhood: The Full Text




Marcus Garvey: “The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association”: Document Analysis




Marcus Garvey: “The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association”: The Full Text




James Weldon Johnson’s “Harlem: The Culture Capital”: Document Analysis




James Weldon Johnson’s “Harlem: The Culture Capital”: The Full Text




Alain Locke’s “Enter the New Negro”: Document Analysis




Alain Locke’s “Enter the New Negro”: The Full Text




Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: “The Negro Woman and the Ballot”: Document Analysis




Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: “The Negro Woman and the Ballot”: The Full Text




Haywood Patterson and Earl Conrad’s Scottsboro Boy: Document Analysis




Haywood Patterson and Earl Conrad’s Scottsboro Boy: The Full Text




Charles Hamilton Houston’s “Educational Inequalities Must Go!”: Document Analysis




Charles Hamilton Houston’s “Educational Inequalities Must Go!”: The Full Text




Mary McLeod Bethune’s “What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?”: Document Analysis




Mary McLeod Bethune’s “What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?”: The Full Text




A. Philip Randolph’s “Call to Negro America to March on Washington”: Document Analysis




A. Philip Randolph’s “Call to Negro America to March on Washington”: The Full Text




Marian Anderson’s My Lord, What a Morning: Document Analysis




Marian Anderson’s My Lord, What a Morning: The Full Text




To Secure These Rights: Document Analysis




To Secure These Rights: The Full Text




Executive Order 9981: Document Analysis




Executive Order 9981: The Full Text




Sweatt v. Painter: Document Analysis




Sweatt v. Painter: The Full Text




Ralph J. Bunche: “The Barriers of Race Can Be Surmounted”: Document Analysis




Ralph J. Bunche: “The Barriers of Race Can Be Surmounted”: The Full Text




Brown v. Board of Education: Document Analysis




Brown v. Board of Education: The Full Text




Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Letter from Birmingham Jail”: Document Analysis




Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Letter from Birmingham Jail”: The Full Text




Roy Wilkins: “The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back”: Document Analysis




Roy Wilkins: “The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back”: The Full Text




George Wallace’s Inaugural Address as Governor: Document Analysis




George Wallace’s Inaugural Address as Governor: The Full Text




Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I Have a Dream”: Document Analysis




Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I Have a Dream”: The Full Text




John F. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Address: Document Analysis




John F. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Address: The Full Text




Fannie Lou Hamer’s Testimony at the Democratic National Convention: Document Analysis




Fannie Lou Hamer’s Testimony at the Democratic National Convention: The Full Text




Civil Rights Act of 1964: Document Analysis




Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Full Text




John P. Davis: “A Black Inventory of the New Deal”: Document Analysis




John P. Davis: “A Black Inventory of the New Deal”: The Full Text




Robert Clifton Weaver: “The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts”: Document Analysis




Robert Clifton Weaver: “The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts”: The Full Text




Walter F. White’s “U.S. Department of (White) Justice”: Document Analysis




Walter F. White’s “U.S. Department of (White) Justice”: The Full Text




Malcolm X: “After the Bombing”: Document Analysis




Malcolm X: “After the Bombing”: The Full Text




Moynihan Report: Document Analysis




Moynihan Report: The Full Text




South Carolina v. Katzenbach: Document Analysis




South Carolina v. Katzenbach: The Full Text




Bond v. Floyd: Document Analysis




Bond v. Floyd: The Full Text




Stokely Carmichael’s “Black Power”: Document Analysis




Stokely Carmichael’s “Black Power”: The Full Text




Loving v. Virginia: Document Analysis




Loving v. Virginia: The Full Text




Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”: Document Analysis




Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”: The Full Text




Kerner Commission Report Summary: Document Analysis




Kerner Commission Report Summary: The Full Text




Eldridge Cleaver’s “Education and Revolution”: Document Analysis




Eldridge Cleaver’s “Education and Revolution”: The Full Text




Jesse Owens’s Blackthink: My Life as Black Man and White Man: Document Analysis




Jesse Owens’s Blackthink: My Life as Black Man and White Man: The Full Text




Clay v. United States: Document Analysis




Clay v. United States: The Full Text




Jackie Robinson’s I Never Had It Made: Document Analysis




Jackie Robinson’s I Never Had It Made: The Full Text




FBI Report on Elijah Muhammad: Document Analysis




FBI Report on Elijah Muhammad: The Full Text




Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel: Document Analysis




Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel: The Full Text




Shirley Chisholm: “The Black Woman in Contemporary America”: Document Analysis




Shirley Chisholm: “The Black Woman in Contemporary America”: The Full Text




Thurgood Marshall’s Equality Speech: Document Analysis




Thurgood Marshall’s Equality Speech: The Full Text




Jesse Jackson’s Democratic National Convention Keynote Address: Document Analysis




Jesse Jackson’s Democratic National Convention Keynote Address: The Full Text




Anita Hill’s Opening Statement at the Senate Confirmation Hearing of Clarence Thomas: Document Analysis




Anita Hill’s Opening Statement at the Senate Confirmation Hearing of Clarence Thomas: The Full Text




A. Leon Higginbotham: “An Open Letter to Justice Clarence Thomas from a Federal Judicial Colleague”: Document Analysis




A. Leon Higginbotham: “An Open Letter to Justice Clarence Thomas from a Federal Judicial Colleague”: The Full Text




Colin Powell’s Commencement Address at Howard University: Document Analysis




Colin Powell’s Commencement Address at Howard University: The Full Text




Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March Pledge: Document Analysis




Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March Pledge: The Full Text




Angela Davis’s “Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation”: Document Analysis




Angela Davis’s “Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation”: The Full Text




One America in the 21st Century: Document Analysis




One America in the 21st Century: The Full Text




Clarence Thomas’s Concurrence/Dissent in Grutter v. Bollinger: Document Analysis




Clarence Thomas’s Concurrence/Dissent in Grutter v. Bollinger: The Full Text




Barack Obama: “A More Perfect Union”: Document Analysis




Barack Obama: “A More Perfect Union”: The Full Text




Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address: Document Analysis




Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address: The Full Text




Barack Obama’s Address to the NAACP Centennial Convention: Document Analysis




Barack Obama’s Address to the NAACP Centennial Convention: The Full Text




U.S. Senate Resolution Apologizing for the Enslavement and Racial Segregation of African Americans: Document Analysis




U.S. Senate Resolution Apologizing for the Enslavement and Racial Segregation of African Americans: The Full Text