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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Featured Records

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Jackie Robinson Letter to President Eisenhower, 1865

Civil Rights 
Act, 1866

Emancipation 
Proclamation, 1863

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Voting Rights Act, 1965

Joint Resolution proposing 13th Amendment, 1865

Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Ed, 1954

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