History, Art & Archives provides a detailed biography of Robert Carlos De Large, a wealthy Republican Congressman (R-SC) from…
Note: See slide #225. HathiTrust features an excerpt from the book, The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the…
Note: See slide #111 (book p. 133-135). HathiTrust provides an excerpt from the 1907 book, The Future of the American Negro,…
Note: See slide 18, p. 18 and slide 24, p. 24. The Library of Congress features an 1893 pamphlet, "The 'Quarterly' Almanac," which…
HathiTrust provides an excerpt published in the 1988 edited book, Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century, titled "Three…
Note: See 6th column, 1st paragraph. Chronicling America features an 1884 obituary, writer unknown, from the Connecticut Morning…
The New York Public Library offers a printed portrait of Robert Brown Elliott- a British Black man who moved to South Carolina and…
The Library of Congress presents a 1872 historical illustration of seven Black legislators from the 41st and 42nd Congresses.…
The Library of Congress provides an 1883 historical illustration, by A. Muller & Co., that depicts portraits of Frederick…
Note: See last column, 1st paragraph. Some language may be offensive to readers. Chronicling America features a January 14, 1873…
Note: See 3rd column, 3rd paragraph. Chronicling America features a February 10, 1893 article, writer unknown, from the Arizona…
Note: Some language may be offensive to readers.Internet Archive presents the digital book, "The Glorious Failure: Black…
The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress provides a short biography of Robert Brown Elliott, a British Black man…
Find A Grave presents a photograph of William Beverly Nash's- a formerly enslaved man who later became a Congressman (R-SC)-…
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture presents an 1897 photograph of William Beverly Nash- a formerly enslaved man…
The Smithsonian Institution presents a 1868 pin back button with a sepia photograph of William B. Nash, a formerly enslaved man…
