Collections taggedCivil Rights

Sally Hemings Underground Newsletter

In May 1970, in response to the shooting of four unarmed students at Kent State University by National Guardsmen, about 1,000 UVA students engaged in several days’ worth of rallies and marches on the Lawn and on Grounds. They joined students across the country in protesting expansion of the...

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Jeremiah Burke Sanderson

Jeremiah Burke Sanderson (1821-1875) was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He began his abolitionist work at age 19 as secretary of the New Bedford Colored Citizens, and was associated with many leading abolitionists of the time. Moving to California in 1854 with the intention of making enough...

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Letters of Rev. John W. Alvord

This collection contains the private letters written by the Rev. John W. Alvord, a Civil War Army Chaplain and Freedmen's Bureau Superintendent of Schools and Finance. Rev. Alvord was a significant historical figure best known for his Letters from the South, Relating to the Condition of...

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Student Anti-Slavery Rebellion 1835

The anti-slavery sentiment that was rising in New England created a moral dilemma for the faculty when the students requested approval to establish an anti-slavery society in 1835. The students believed that the moral teachings they were receiving demanded that they show their support for the...

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Chinese American Citizens Alliance

The Chinese American Citizens Alliance is an organization founded in 1895 in San Francisco, California to work for civil rights of Chinese Americans and improve the welfare of the community. The records here are early membership applications from the Oakland branch and will serve as a pilot...

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Vel Phillips Papers, 1951-2009

The Vel Phillips papers, 1951-2009, document the life and career of Milwaukee’s Vel Phillips, whose work as a lawyer, city alder, civil rights leader, judge, and Secretary of State profoundly influenced Wisconsin’s civil rights history throughout the latter half of the 20th century. Of...

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I demokratins namn – kvinnorna som krävde rösträtt

Nyheter i projektet: Nu kan du hjälpa till med att transkribera namnen på medlemmarna i Stockholms FKPR! Vi lanserar ytterligare ett sidoprojekt där du kan hjälpa till att transkribera informationen i en bevarad medlemsmatrikel från Föreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt i...

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Jacksonville Public Library Digital Special Collections

Typewritten and handwritten meeting minutes, ordinances, and resolutions of the City Council of Jacksonville; collections of source material related to African American life in Northeast Florida including photographs, personal papers, scrapbooks, yearbooks, pamphlets, and gray literature related...

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California Women's Suffrage

The Women's Suffrage movement in California was a significant and hard-fought campaign that ultimately led to women gaining the right to vote in the state on October 10, 1911. This victory made California the sixth state in the United States to grant women equal suffrage, a full nine years...

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New Content

Help the Julian Bond Papers Project Transcribe New Content! We've started launching new materials starting in the summer of 2022, and it will be available here, at https://fromthepage.com/centerfordigitalediting/bond-papers-new-content. See also our updated transcription guidance (please no...

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