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Book/Printed MaterialProceedings of the Convention of the Equal Rights and Educational Association of Georgia : assembled at Macon, October 29th, 1866, containing the annual address of the president, Captain J. E. Bryant. Published … Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 14228. Source: Source unknown.- Contributor: Bryant, John Emory - Georgia Equal Rights and Educational Association. Convention - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1866-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialColored suffrage : report submitted in the Board of Common Council Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 12628.- Contributor: Peugh, Samuel A. - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1865-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe immediate issue: a speech of Wendell Phillips at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at Boston. What the black man wants : speech of Frederick Douglass at the annual … Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 19840. Source: Source unknown.- Contributor: Phillips, Wendell - Douglass, Frederick - Heighton, William - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Stearns, Geo. L. (George Luther) - Wright, Elizur
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialAddress Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm. Formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16639.- Contributor: Runkle, Benjamin Piatt - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1868-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialProceedings of the State Equal Rights' Convention, of the Colored People of Pennsylvania, held in the city of Harrisburg, February 8th, 9th, and 10th, 1865 : together with a few of the … Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has newspaper clipping tipped in between title page and cover. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16721. Source: Source unknown.- Contributor: State Equal Rights' Convention of the Colored People of Pennsylvania - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1865-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialNegro suffrage is not a failure : an address before the New England Suffrage Conference, March 30, 1903 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has inscription on p. [20]: Jun 19 1903. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 15444. Purchase, B.R. Wilson, June 25, 1903.- Contributor: Storey, Moorfield - Wilson, B. R. - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialUnion and liberty : powers of Congress in relation to the slaves, with a form of enactment in conformity thereto : addressed to a Congressman Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 15708. Source: Source unknown.- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Book/Printed MaterialVoices from Connecticut for impartial suffrage. Caption title. At head of title: "Read this, and induce others to read it. Do not fail to vote, and to use all your influence with your Neighbors to lead them to vote, and vote aright. Your action may decide the result." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has ink stamp on p. [1]: 61503 '05.…- Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1865-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialU.S. Grant and the colored people. : His wise, just, practical, and effective friendship thoroughly vindicated by incontestable facts in his record from 1862 to 1872. : Words of truth and soberness! … A brief address in the midst of the 1872 election campaign designed to document Ulysses S. Grant's support for African American liberation and civil rights. Douglass hoped thereby to rally the black vote for Grant.- Contributor: Union Republican Congressional Committee - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Douglass, Frederick - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1872-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialEquality before the law protected by national statute : speeches of Hon. Chas. Sumner, of Massachusetts, on his supplementary civil rights bill, as an amendment to the civil rights bill : in … Speeches and debates by and involving Sumner in the Senate as he proposed to amend the 1866 Civil Rights Act to ensure equal rights to African Americans in the South. Sumner discusses race, the separate but equal doctrine, slavery, and citizenship in making his points with southern Senators.- Contributor: Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sumner, Charles
- Date: 1874
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Book/Printed MaterialOpen letter to President McKinley A letter from prominent African American citizens of Boston to President McKinley protesting presidential inaction and toleration of racial prejudice, discrimination, and recent violence against blacks in the South. They plead for a guarantee of all civil rights for US blacks as set forth in the Constitution, especially in the South, to enable African Americans to rise out of poverty, ignorance, and social degradation.…- Contributor: Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Barnett, I. D., (Isaiah D.) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Colored National League - Grimké, Archibald Henry
- Date: 1899-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialProceedings of the National Convention of Colored Men, held in the city of Syracuse, N.Y., October 4, 5, 6, and 7, 1864; with the Bill of wrongs and rights, and the Address … Compiled by the Committee on Publication: John S. Rock, George L. Ruffin, Wm. Howard Day. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm. Replace; LC copy replaced by preservation microfilm- Contributor: National Convention of Colored Men - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialGeorgia Equal Rights Convention, held in Macon, Georgia, February 13 and 14, 1906 Consists of "A call to the colored men & women of Georgia," "The [convention] president's address," and a signed statement and plea entitled: Address of the first meeting of the Georgia Equal Rights' Convention." Source: The bequest of Daniel Murray, 1925. LAC ael 2019-04-11 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Georgia Equal Rights Convention
- Date: 1906-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe progress of the Negro race : address of Hon. Boies Penrose. Cover title. "Address of Hon. Boies Penrose at a patriotic race service, held by the Negroes of Philadelphia ... March 1, 1914"--P. 3. Source: Bequest of Daniel Murray, 1925. LAC ael 2019-04-11 no edits (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-04-17 review- Contributor: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress) - Penrose, Boies
- Date: 1914-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe race problem. The Brownsville raid. Speech of Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina in the Senate of the United States, Saturday, January 12, 1907- Contributor: Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan)
- Date: 1907
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Book/Printed MaterialIs liberty worth preserving? Tourgée was president of the National Citizens' Rights Association, whose aim was to secure enforcement of the civil and political rights of African Americans in the South. Tourgée discusses the injustices which southern Blacks endure, takes the Republican Party to task for its timidity and irresponsibility, and predicts violence if southern Blacks do not secure justice.- Contributor: Tourgée, Albion W. - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1892-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe state and the citizen of the state : a sermon in the First Congregational Church on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1883 Rankin says both state and citizen have been ordained by God and he is quite critical of the US government and the Supreme Court for failing to enforce African American civil rights, most recently in the Dred Scott decision.- Contributor: Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Rankin, Jeremiah Eames - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1883-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe national elections bill : speech of Hon. John M. Langston, of Virginia, in the House of Representatives, January 16, 1891. Langston was an African American congressman from Virginia. In a somewhat rambling way, he speaks in favor of an elections bill that would protect blacks and whites who wanted to vote Republican from intimidation by Democratic Party members in the South.- Contributor: Kenworthy, W. S. - Langston, John Mercer - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialA constitutional defense of the Negro Crapsey, one of the most famous and influential clerics in the Episcopal Church, a writer on religion, and an African American, sharply criticizes southern whites' attitudes towards African Americans. He sees them perpetuating slavery by depriving African Americans of the franchise after the Civil War and makes a plea for recognition of African American civil rights, especially the right to vote. Crapsey calls upon…- Contributor: Metropolitan A.M.E. Church (Washington, D.C.) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Crapsey, Algernon Sidney
- Date: 1901-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialTrade of Puerto Rico ; Personal explanation : speeches of Hon. George H. White of North Carolina, in the House of Representatives, Monday, February 5, and Friday, February 23, 1900.
Trade of Puerto Rico | Personal explanation In speaking about trade with Puerto Rico, White, an African American congressman from North Carolina, protests the treatment of American blacks who have been murdered, disenfranchised, and deprived of their constitutional rights in the South, without any action by government. White introduces a bill to enable the federal government to enforce civil rights rather than to leave enforcement to individual states. A second speech…- Contributor: White, George H. (George Henry) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe race problem : speech of Hon. Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina ... in the Senate of the United States, February 23-24, 1903. Tillman, a white senator from South Carolina, speaks for political control in the South by southern whites in the face of the mass of "ignorant" African American masses, who constitute a majority in many areas and in some states. He also questions the grant of the franchise to African Americans, and specifically protests Republican patronage appointments in the South.- Contributor: Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe race problem. Williams reproduces two letters here. The first -- an open letter to the Chicago daily tribune -- protests the treatment of African Americans since the Civil War and asking when a so-called Christian people will overcome their prejudice against blacks. The second letter is a response to Gov. Chandler of Georgia blaming southerners for creating the "race problem" in the South, not northern "fools…- Contributor: Candler, Allen D. (Allen Daniel) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Williams, Charles H. (Charles Halston)
- Date: 1899-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialSixth triennial meeting of the College Alumni Association of Howard University, College Chapel, May 18, 1892 : president's address, Prof. Kelly Miller ... ; triennial oration, Our relation and duty to the … In his presidential address, Kelly reviews the state of affairs at Howard and makes a plea for sound scholarship and literary efforts on the part of Howard graduates. Cook addresses the "Negro problem" and urges African Americans to acquire higher education and wealth and to recognize and do their duty to the country to improve the image of their race and to dispel racial…- Contributor: Cook, Geo. Wm. (George William) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Miller, Kelly
- Date: 1892-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialOration delivered on Emancipation Day, January 2nd 1888 Love hails emancipation as the greatest event in the history of African Americans, but notes that it did not deliver honor, fame, wealth, civil rights, etc., which blacks must earn for themselves. He believes blacks and whites should remain separate racially and educationally, but they should work together to build a great nation. Emanuel K. Love, a prominent Baptist cleric, was at this time…- Contributor: Love, E. K. (Emanuel King) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe black laws! : speech of Hon. B.W. Arnett of Greene County, and Hon. J.A. Brown of Cuyahoga County, in the Ohio House of Representatives, March 10, 1886. Arnett examines the civil rights of African Americans in Ohio, Jim Crow laws and segregation, and African American education in Ohio schools, and he pleads for repeal of Ohio's segregation laws, the text of which are reproduced here. Arnett, a prominent AME cleric, represented Greene County in the Ohio State Legislature from 1885-1887.- Contributor: Arnett, Benjamin William - Brown, J. A. (Jere A.) - Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives
- Date: 1886-01-01
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