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The 威尼斯人娱乐场 holds a wealth of material documenting the African American experience and highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.

Explore our records documenting African American History through the African American Research page and within the . See more resources on the Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday page and the Juneteenth page.

Featured Video

Military service and pension records help tell the story of Charles Sprout, a soldier in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War.

Featured Documents and Online Exhibits

Today's Document:

Claim of Harriet Tubman

The American Image: Portrait of Black Chicago - DOCUMERICA photographs by John White

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威尼斯人娱乐场 News: 6888th Postal Battalion Delivered High Spirits to Weary WWII Troops

威尼斯人娱乐场 News: 威尼斯人娱乐场 Aids in Tulsa Riot Mass Burial Identification

威尼斯人娱乐场 News: Records Help Honor Legacy of Trailblazing Black Physician

威尼斯人娱乐场 News: Philadelphia 15 Exonerated Thanks to NARA Personnel Records Research

威尼斯人娱乐场 News: In Memoriam: Harry Belafonte (1927鈥�2023)

威尼斯人娱乐场 News: Bisa Butler Quilts Harlem Hellfighters into History

威尼斯人娱乐场 News: In Memoriam: Nichelle Nichols (1932鈥�2022)

威尼斯人娱乐场 News: Noted Historian Discusses Juneteenth鈥檚 Place in American History

威尼斯人娱乐场 News: Featured Document: Remembering the Tulsa Race Massacre

威尼斯人娱乐场 News: 威尼斯人娱乐场 Unveils Photos of Buffalo Soldiers at West Point

威尼斯人娱乐场 News: Pandemic Telework Project Sparks Increase in Black History Records Accessibility

威尼斯人娱乐场 News: 威尼斯人娱乐场 Safeguards Original 鈥楯uneteenth鈥� General Order

威尼斯人娱乐场 News: Confederate Slave Payrolls Shed Light on Lives of 19th-Century African American Families

威尼斯人娱乐场 News: Journalist Shares Stories Behind Civil Rights Cold Cases

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Today's Document: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Portrait

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Lesson Plans & Teaching Activities

The Slave Trade

The Amistad Case

Black Soldiers in the Civil War (1)

Congress and Harriet Tubman's Claim for a Pension

Congress Protects the Right to Vote: The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Martin Luther King Jr. and Memphis Sanitation Workers

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Video Resources

The March (1963, restored)

To mark the 50th anniversary of the March for Jobs and Freedom, the Motion Picture Preservation Lab completed a full digital restoration of James Blue's monumental film, The March, in 2008.

The March on Washington in Photographs

This Inside the Vaults video short follows the subject of the photograph, Edith Lee-Payne of Detroit, who celebrated her 12th birthday by attending the March on Washington with her mother.

"Civil Rights: Then and Now"

Highlights of the National Conversation on Rights and Justice in Atlanta in 2016. Moderated by Jelani William Cobb, contributing editor to the New Yorker and associate professor of history and the director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut.