Enrichment Materials: African-American Voices
These enrichment materials build upon concepts introduced in US History and Advanced US History courses. They incorporate and link perspectives of African-Americans throughout our nation's history.
A look into African-American involvement in the Revolutionary War
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African-Americans and the Revolution
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African Americans in the Early Republic
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Letter to Philadelphia’s Freedom Journal by a formerly enslaved man
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Interview with a Negro cowboy, Bones Hooks, from the period of westward expansion
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Archive of abolitionist Black voices during the Antebellum period
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Slave narratives and photographs
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Document explaining the relationship between slaves and the American judicial system
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Black Republican leader requesting protection during era of Reconstruction
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Codes against African-Americans in the South after the abolition of slavery
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African Americans in the Progressive Era (Gilded Age)
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Oral-history interviews discussing life in the Jim Crow South
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Lynching from the POV of a Black woman, Mary Church Terrell
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“Effect of Imperialism upon the Negro Race”
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A collection of primary sources regarding African American involvement in WW1
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"African American Women and the 19th Amendment"
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Race Relations in the 1930s and 1940s
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African American stories in WWII
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“The Negro in America Today,” 1950s
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Black Natchez, a digital collection meant to highlight the registration of Black voters in the South
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BAD Times, a student-led newspaper during the Civil Rights Movement
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Alex Haley’s ‘The Malcolm X I Knew’
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Black Vietnam Veterans discussing the injustices they faced during and after the war
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African Americans in the Vietnam War
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