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Chapter Four: Civil Rights
- African American
Odyssey is a Library of Congress special exhibition that explores the African-American
struggle for full citizenship. The exhibit includes online material from
rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays,
films, and recordings.
- The World Book online encyclopedia presents a similar exhibit
titled World Book Encyclopedia
Presents: The African American Journey.
- Africans
in America is a PBS production that focuses primarily on African-American
experiences prior to and including the Civil War. It features an excellent
set of historical documents and
resources.
- African
American Pamphlets Home Page of the Library of Congress notes that "the Daniel A.
P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of
African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from
the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk
of the material published between 1875 and 1900. Among the authors represented
are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin
W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love."
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