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Text about a historical source by Frederick Douglass discussing principles of liberty, equality, and justice for African Americans.
Text document titled "Primary Source" with a guiding question about the impact of Founding principles on African Americans.
Document titled "Primary Source" featuring a text box with questions about liberty and justice for African Americans.
Text on a page titled "Primary Source" discusses liberty, equality, and justice for African Americans after the Civil War.

Voices of Protest: Reconstruction and the era of Jim Crow

Text about a historical source by Frederick Douglass discussing principles of liberty, equality, and justice for African Americans.
Frederick Douglass, What the Black Man Wants, 1865
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Text document titled "Primary Source" with a guiding question about the impact of Founding principles on African Americans.
Frederick Douglass, Speech on the Civil Rights Cases, 1883
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Document titled "Primary Source" featuring a text box with questions about liberty and justice for African Americans.
Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law”, 1893
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Text on a page titled "Primary Source" discusses liberty, equality, and justice for African Americans after the Civil War.
Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South, 1892
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Text from an educational resource discussing Frederick Douglass and principles of liberty and justice for African Americans.
Frederick Douglass, The Blessings of Liberty and Education, 1894
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Text on a document titled "Primary Source" discussing principles of liberty and justice for African Americans from 1865 to 1900.
Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895
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Text from a primary source document titled "Primary Source" by W. E. B. Du Bois, Niagara Movement Speech, 1905.
W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk, 1903
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Text from a presentation slide titled "Primary Source" discussing W. E. B. Du Bois and historical questions on justice.
W.E.B. Du Bois, Niagara Movement Speech, 1905
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Text excerpt from a document discussing Booker T. Washington's views on segregation laws, dated 1915.
Booker T. Washington, My View of Segregation Laws, 1915
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Document titled "Primary Source" featuring a quote by Langston Hughes from 1936, discussing liberty and justice for African Americans.
Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”, 1936
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