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Portraits of Nineteenth Century African American Women Activists Newly Available Online
The William Henry Richards's collection includes portraits of people who joined him and others working in the suffrage and temperance movements and in education, journalism and the arts. These newly digitized photographs represent women who were in the public eye and active in a variety of professions and causes.
Image credit: Bust portrait of educator and activist, Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) Library of Congress
Selected Exhibits and Collections
African American Educators, Education and Schools (Library of Congress) 9Hide All
- American Women and Education: African American Schools
- Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961)
- Frederick D. Patterson (1901-1988)
- Moton Family Papers (1850-1991)
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- The Rosenwald Schools: Selected Works from the Library of Congress Collections (Web Guide)
- Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Art & Design 4Hide All
Baseball 2Hide All
Civil Rights 10Hide All
- Abraham Lincoln Papers (Library of Congress)
- A Day Like No Other: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington (Library of Congress)
- Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling (National Archives)
- Changing America – Traveling Exhibition (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963 (Smithsonian Institution)
- Civil Rights Act of 1964 (National Archives)
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom (Library of Congress)
Civil Rights History
Civil Rights continued 18Hide All
- Confrontation Between Black Demonstrators and Segregationists at a "White Only" Beach (World Digital Library)
- Created Equal (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Frederick Douglass: American Visionary (National Park Service)
- The Frederick Douglass Papers (Library of Congress)
- Freedom Riders (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- March on Washington Tour from the National Archives on HistoryPin
- NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom (Library of Congress)
- National Archives African American History Month Set on Flickr
- Official Program for the March on Washington (National Archives)
- The Papers of Rosa Parks (Library of Congress)
- Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination: Documentation by Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photographer (Library of Congress)
- Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court ruling (National Archives)
- Records of Rights (National Archives)
- Voices of Civil Rights Exhibition (Library of Congress)
- Voices from the Southern Civil Rights Movement (Library of Congress & NPR)
- Voting Rights Act of 1965 (National Archives)
- W.E.B. Du Bois in Cyberspace (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty Exhibition (Library of Congress)
Culture & Folklife 16Hide All
- African American Heritage and Ethnography (National Park Service)
- African American Newspapers, 1859—1922 from the Chronicling America Collection (Library of Congress)
- African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship Exhibition (Library of Congress)
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 (Library of Congress)
- African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition (Library of Congress)
- Black College Life in the New Deal (A National Archives exhibit in the Google Cultural Institute)
- Discover Amazing Americans: Activist Mary Church Terrell (Library of Congress)
- Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942 (Library of Congress)
- Maggie Walker National Historic Site Virtual Exhibit (National Park Service)
- Mary Church Terrell's journal, written in French and German, of her 1888-1890 study tour in Europe (Library of Congress)
- McNeill Collection Daguerreotypes （Library of Congress)
- Portrait of Black Chicago (National Archives)
- The Progress of a People Exhibition (Library of Congress)
- Rhode Island Folklife Project Collection (Library of Congress)
- South Central Georgia Field Project Collection (Library of Congress)
- StoryCorps Griot Project (Smithsonian Institution/CPB)
Government & Politics 1Hide All
Historic Places 10Hide All
- African American Military Heritage
- African Reflections on the American Landscape: Identifying and Interpreting Africanisms (National Park Service)
- Civil Rights in America
- The Legacy of Slavery
- The Buffalo Soldiers (National Park Service)
- National Register of Historic Places celebrates African American History Month (National Park Service)
- National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (National Park Service)
- Places Reflecting America's Diverse Cultures Travel Itinerary highlighting NPS parks significant to various peoples, including African Americans: (National Park Service)
- "We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement” (National Park Service)
- “Where We Could Be Ourselves": African American LGBTQ Historic Places and Why They Matter (National Park Service)
Military 13Hide All
- African-Americans at War: Fighting Two Battles, Stories from the Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)
- African Americans in the Revolutionary Period (National Park Service)
- Buffalo Soldiers: The 92nd in Italy (Library of Congress)
- Charles Bernard Rangel (Veterans History Project, Library of Congress)
- Julius Wesley Becton, Jr. (Veterans History Project, Library of Congress)
- Legends of Tuskegee (National Park Service)
- Liljenquist Collection of Civil War Photos (Library of Congress)
- Lt. Henry O. Flipper's Quest for Justice: "As honorable a record in the Army as any officer in it" (National Archives)
- Soldiers in Uniform (World Digital Library)
- The Spirit of Tuskegee Blog (in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution)
- Tell It with Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial (National Gallery of Art)
- William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection (Library of Congress)
- The William A. Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs (Library of Congress)
Music & Performing Arts 8Hide All
- African American Band Music and Recordings, 1883-1923 (Library of Congress)
- Katherine Dunham Collection (Library of Congress)
- "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 (Library of Congress)
- Photos of the Harlem Renaissance (Library of Congress)
- Ragtime (Library of Congress)
- Song of America: Ethiopia Saluting the Colors (Library of Congress)
- Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (Library of Congress)
- William P. Gottlieb Collection of Jazz Photography
- The Zora Neale Hurston Plays (Library of Congress)
Social Media 6Hide All
- Recognizing African-American Veterans This Month and All Other Months Too (Library of Congress)
- African American History Month Pinterest Board by the Library of Congress
- Between the Waters: Learning History with the Hobcaw Barony Website Project (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Blog posts from the American Folklife Center related to African Americans (Library of Congress)
- Citizen Archivist -- making the records of the National Archives more discoverable (National Archives)
- Exploring Place in African American History (Library of Congress)
Slavery and Emancipation 14Hide All
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (Library of Congress)
- The District of Columbia Emancipation Act (National Archives)
- The Emancipation Proclamation (National Archives)
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 (Library of Congress)
- Grabo. The Armistad [sic] Negroes, Drawn from Life, by Wm. H. Townsend. (World Digital Library)
- The Meaning and Making of Emancipation eBook (National Archives)
- Portrait of Mauma Mollie (World Digital Library)
- Sketches of the Amistad Captives (World Digital Library)
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 (Library of Congress)
- Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty (Smithsonian Institution & The Thomas Jefferson Foundation)
- Thompson and Chesson Scrapbooks: Scrapbooks related to the abolition of slavery, (19 scrapbooks)(Library of Congress)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children, 1908 (Library of Congress)
- Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (Library of Congress)
- Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave database (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
Resource Guides (Library of Congress) 25Hide All
- Web Guides -- African American History
- African American Business Resources
- The African American Mosaic: Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
- African American Women in the Sciences and Related Disciplines
- African American Science Books for Younger Readers
- African American Sites in the Digital Collections
- African Business Guide
- Afro-American Genealogical Research
- Soul Food with a Focus on Health: Selected Resources
- Carmen McRae Collection of Musical Arrangements and Other Materials—Finding Aid
- Charles Mingus Collection—Finding Aid
- Civil Rights History Project Collection -- Finding Aid
- Dexter Gordon Collection—Finding Aid
- Digitized Newspaper Articles related to African American History Topics (Chronicling America)
- Eric Dolphy Collection—Finding Aid
- Ella Fitzgerald Collection—Finding Aid
- Gwendolyn Brooks, U.S. Poet Laureate, 1985-86
- Langston Hughes and His Poetry
- Law Library of Congress - Legislative and Executive Branch Documents
- Lester Horton Dance Theater Collection—Finding Aid
- Library of Congress – African & Middle Eastern Reading Room
- Max Roach Papers—Finding Aid
- National Negro Opera Company Collection—Finding Aid
- Primary Documents in American History: Emancipation Proclamation
- Rita Dove, U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-95