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The Great Migration
Conflict of Abolition and Slavery Migrations Reconstruction Reconstruction and Its Aftermath The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship explores
black America's quest for equality from the early national period
through the twentieth century. It showcases the incomparable African
American collections of the Library of Congress by displaying more
than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts,
maps, musical scores, and plays in the largest black history exhibit
ever presented by the Library.
This selection of manuscript and printed text and images drawn
from the collections of the Ohio Historical Society illuminates
the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920, a story of slavery
and freedom, segregation and integration, religion and politics,
migrations and restrictions, harmony and discord, and struggles
and successes. From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection,
1822-1909 presents 396 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American
authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization,
Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The materials
range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational
reports and legislative speeches. Among the authors represented
are Frederick Douglass, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary Church
Terrell, and Booker T. Washington. From Slavery to Freedom was made
possible by a major gift from the Citigroup Foundation and complements "California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of
California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and
illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's
history through eyewitness accounts. The collection covers the dramatic
decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century.
It captures the pioneer experience; encounters between Anglo-Americans
and the diverse peoples who had preceded them; the transformation
of the land by mining, ranching, agriculture, and urban development;
the often-turbulent growth of communities and cities; and California's
emergence as both a state and a place of uniquely American dreams.
The production of this collection was supported by a generous grant
from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. These two collections from the Institute for Regional Studies at
North Dakota State University contain 900 photographs of rural and
small town life at the turn of the century. Highlights include images
of sod homes and the people who built them; images of farms and
the machinery that made them prosper; and images of one-room schools
and the children that were educated in them.
Immigration/Migration Is there a novel in every person? Students address these questions through activities using oral
history methods and investigating life in the 1930s. They compare
the immigration/migration experiences of their families to those
of people living through the Great Depression using interviews with
parents, and photographs, films, and documents from the Library
of Congress and other sources.
On April 7, 1805, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark left Fort
Mandan for points west, beginning the process of "filling in
the canvas" of America. This exhibition features the Library's
rich collections of exploration material documenting the quest to
connect the East and the West by means of a waterway passage.
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