Slave Trade Act, 1794
Ida B. Wells Lynching Map, 1922
Juneteenth Order, 1865
FBI photos Contact sheet from Bloody Sunday, 1965
Supreme Court Decision Dred Scott v John F.A. Sandford, 1857
Cloture Motion for Civil Rights Act, 1964
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Jackie Robinson Letter to President Eisenhower, 1865
Civil Rights
Act, 1866
Emancipation
Proclamation, 1863
Voting Rights Act, 1965
Joint Resolution proposing 13th Amendment, 1865
Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Ed, 1954