Browse Collections (59 total)
13th Amendment
Section 1: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist…
14th Amendment
Section 1 addresses birthright and naturalized citizenship and the rights of citizens, which include "the equal protection of the laws."
15th Amendment
Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of…
Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan & the Wade Davis Bill
Highlights of Lincoln's plan to rebuild the American South and unify the nation after the Civil War.
Alonzo Jacob Ransier
A free born South Carolina man who became the state's first Black Lieutenant Governor and one of the South Carolina's first Black Congressman (R…
Andrew Johnson's Presidency (1865 to mid-1867 before Impeachment)
Highlights of Johnson's presidency before the impeachment charges.
Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan
Highlights of Johnson's plan for rebuilding the American South and unifying the nation after the Civil War.
Anson Burlingame & Burlingame Treaty of 1868
A White New Berlin, New York born, attorney, abolitionist, U.S. diplomat to China, and chief architect of the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Treaty…
Brick Baptist Church
Historical church and learning center for formerly enslaved people during and after the Civil War on St. Helena Island in Beaufort, South…
Cainhoy Massacre
A shootout between Black militia and White gunmen at a Republican political gathering outside of Charleston, South Carolina on October 26,…
Charles Sumner
A White, Boston, Massachusetts born attorney, abolitionist, U.S. Senator, Radical Republican leader and author of the nation's first Civil Rights…
Charlotte Forten Grimke
A free-born Pennsylvania abolitionist, writer, storyteller, poet and teacher. Recruited to teach newly freed people in the Port Royal Experiment in…
Chinese Exclusion Act
The 1882 federal law that suspended the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years and rendered them ineligible for citizenship. A series of…
Chinese Massacre of 1871
Focus on the events that led up to, and the aftermath of, the October 24, 1871 mass lynching of Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles,…
Chinese Six Companies
Organized in the 1850s in San Francisco and formally established in 1882. An organization of the six most powerful Chinese companies in California…
Contested Election of 1876
Highlights of the contested 1876 presidential race between the Republican, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Democrat, Samuel J Tilden, that resulted in a…