Black Freedom Struggle in the United States

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States, featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.

This database contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom:

 Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860)

The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877)

Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932)

The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945)

The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975)

The Contemporary Era (1976-2000)

The documents presented here represent a selection of primary sources available in several ProQuest databases. The databases represented in this website include American Periodicals, Black Abolitionist Papers, ProQuest History Vault, ProQuest Congressional, Supreme Court Insight and Alexander Street’s Black Thought and Culture.