Overview Object List Credits Public Programs Search EXHIBIT SECTIONS Slavery--The Peculiar Institution Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period Abolition The Civil War Reconstruction Booker T. Washington Era World War I and Postwar Society Depression, New Deal, and World War II Civil Rights INTRODUCTION The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Dis ...

Time Line of African American History, 1852-1880 The following works were valuable sources in the compilation of this Time Line: Lerone Bennett's Before the Mayflower (Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 1982), W. Augustus Low and Virgil A. Clift's Encyclopedia of Black America (New York: Da Capo Press, 1984), and Harry A. Ploski and Warren Marr's The Negro Almanac (New York: Bellwether Co., 1976). Timeline: 1881-1900 Timeline: 1901-1925 1852 Daniel A. P. Murray born. Born in Baltimo ...

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology RELATED RESOURCES ON THIS SITE From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. Their narratives remain a peer ...

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