Program for the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, formerly the Association for the Study of Negro Life..... Read More about 69th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History Inc.,...
A comprehensive study of the history of race and relations in Washington, D.C. “Mrs. Green has here recorded the ups and downs of the relations..... Read More about The Secret City. A History Of Race Relations In The Nation’s Capital
Texas Bonds and the Supreme Court. In the 1830s, General James Hamilton Jr., one-time Governor of South Carolina, and Texas loan commissioner, loaned money to..... Read More about 1851 Letter concerning a Legal Dispute relating to Payment of Republic of Texas Bonds, from...
An odd case, Thomas Turner vs. John Peabody, where the latter man accuses the former of “unlawfully converted for his own use three certain double..... Read More about 1841 District of Columbia Legal Manuscript re: a Converted Double Barreled Fowling Gun
Selective and Critical Bibliography of Horace Mann: “Opposes bill proposing abolition, not of slavery, but of the slave trade, in the District of Columbia; ‘slavery..... Read More about Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives, Feb 28, 1849, on Slavery...
Memorial of Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of Africa here joining with the national American Colonization Society to promote..... Read More about Memorial of The Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of...
This 1824 indenture concerns the settlement of a debt and sale of land by John Holohan of Washington, D.C. to Humphrey Peake, Collector of the..... Read More about 1824 District of Columbia Manuscript Indenture Signed Twice by Judge and former U.S. Congressman...
Unrecorded auction catalogue held by Washington D.C. auctioneers Latimer & Cleary for Emmanuel Henri Victurnien, Marquis de Noailles (1830–1909), a French diplomat, historian, and literary..... Read More about By Latimer & Cleary, Auctioneers. Catalogue Sale of Superb Parlor and Chamber Furniture ......
Contents include, “...The Color Line in Washington Industries; Changes in Employment of Negro Workers; Negro Government Employees; Gains and Losses in Industry Summarized…” Washington, D.C...... Read More about The Employment of Negroes in the District of Columbia
Loan coupon or note issued by the Patriotic Bank of Washington, the first savings bank in Washington, D.C., established in 1815. The coupon bears the..... Read More about Patriotic Bank of Washington, 1832 Partly Printed Loan Coupon
Memorial supporting the rights of slaveholders by 220 citizens of Washington, D.C. who “...do not desire the enactment of any law for the extinction of..... Read More about Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the District of Columbia, adverse To any legislation on the...
Anthology of articles from the Black press, compiled from newspapers and periodicals in the aftermath of the Washington (D.C.) Race Riot of 1919 when White..... Read More about The Voice of the Negro 1919
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For Baltimore-native Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993), the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, the nascence of his storied law career..... Read More about Thurgood Marshall Graduates from Law School, First in His Class, Cum Laude, in 1933 within:] The...
Dr. Aaron Van Camp: Future Confederate Spy, A Doctor Just before the American Civil War begins, 6 scrapbook leaves document the life of a D.C...... Read More about 1858 to 1862 Collection. Future Confederate Spy Aaron Van Camp of Washington D. C. Autograph...
A history of African-American physicians and their exclusion from white medical associations until well into the 20th century. Dr. William Montague Cobb (1904-1990) was the..... Read More about The First Negro Medical Society. A History of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of...
Lawyer, politician and financier, Fessenden would become President Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury in July of 1864. “His firm stance against slavery and its expansion..... Read More about Speech of Hon. W.P. Fessenden, of Maine, On the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia,...
In this good content letter pioneer aviator Walter Wellman writes in his position as a news journalist for the American Press Association (Associated Press, today)..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed by Walter Wellman, Pioneer American Aviator
