African American History Documents

This is page 2 of the oral history of Sarah Grudger who claimed to be 121 years old at the time of the interview.  Click on the image for a bett...

This is page 3 of the oral history of Sarah Grudger who claimed to be 121 years old at the time of the interview.  Click on the image for a bett...

This is page 4 of the oral history of Sarah Grudger who claimed to be 121 years old at the time of the interview.  Click on the image for a bett...

This is page 5 of the oral history of Sarah Grudger who claimed to be 121 years old at the time of the interview.  Click on the image for a bett...

Among other things in his December 8th report, Hopkins notes - at page two - the FBI's efforts to get a confession from Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price: ...

In his December 8, 1964 investigation report, H. L. Hopkins - working for the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission - reports that Michael ("Mickey...

Free blacks who worked as seamen (during the years of American slavery) needed to prove they were not slaves.  To avoid capture, such men were gi...

This image is page 20 of a book describing the kidnapping of Africans who were transported to the "new world" aboard a ship called La Amistad.   ...

In July of 1917, not long after the US entered WWI, the NAACP invited African-Americans to march in a silent protest held in New York City.

This document, filed with the U.S. District Court for the State of Maryland, was permitted under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law.  It was submitted a...

This image depicts the second page of a bill of sale by which a slave owner named Jacob Cook purchased four slaves "for life."   The slaves, of ...

Since it became America's capital city, circa 1800, Washington City had slaves. This compendium includes laws impacting slavery in the District.