On Being Brought from AFRICA to AMERICA

Phyllis Wheatley 1770

To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth

Phyllis Wheatley 1773

Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau 1849

African Colonization–By a Man of Color

Augustus Washington July 03, 1851

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Chief Justice Taney (Opinion of the Court)

60 U.S. 393

Excerpts

March 6, 1857

The Civil Rights Act of 1866

April 09, 1866

Lift Every Voice and Sing

James Weldon Johnson 1900

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Platform

1909

Executive Order 8802

Franklin D. Roosevelt June 25, 1941

“To Secure These Rights”, The Report of President Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights

December 5, 1946

Executive Order 9981

Harry S. Truman

The White House

July 26, 1948

Harlem

Langston Hughes 1951

Letter to the Orlando Sentinel

Zora Neale Hurston August 11, 1955

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Excerpt

1957

Civil Rights Act of 1960

Excerpt

May 06, 1960

Civil Rights Act of 1964

July 02, 1964

Annual Address

Joseph Jackson

Delivered at 84th Annual Session of the National Baptist Convention

Cobo Hall Arena

Detroit, Michigan

September 10, 1964

Voting Rights Act of 1965

August 06, 1965

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation

Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) & Charles V. Hamilton

[Excerpt from BLACK POWER: Its Need and Substance, Chapter 2]

1967

Invisible Man: Conversations with Ralph Elison

James Alan McPherson July 30, 1969

Civil Rights Act of 1991

Excerpt

1991

Civil Rights in America

Ken Masugi November 09, 2003