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Record Group 46 - Records of the United States Senate


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Record Group 46 - Records of the United States Senate

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The United States Senate exercises federal legislative authority jointly with the United States House of Representatives. Selected series in this record group pertain to slavery, African American politicians, and civil rights.

Clusters: DC Government

Textual Records

Anson McCook Collection of Presidential Signatures, 1789-1975

Level of Description Selected Records
File Unit
  • Petitions and Memorials Referred to the Committee on Slavery and Freedmen, ca. 03/04/1863 鈥� ca. 03/05/1865
Item
  • "To the Women of the Republic," Address from the Women's Loyal National League supporting the abolition of slavery, 01/25/1864 from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Vice President John Adams transmitting a petition from the Society for the Abolition of Slavery and an address of the people called Quakers on the subject of the abolition of the slave trade, 02/1790
  • Message of President Lyndon B. Johnson nominating Thurgood Marshall of New York to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 06/13/1967

Some of the records in this series have been digitized.
Some records in this series may be subject to copyright restrictions.

Committee Papers, 1816-2011

Selected Items
  • Petition of Colored Citizens of McMinn County, Tennessee, Praying for Protection of Civil Rights under the Fourteenth Amendment, 03/02/1874
  • Petition to the Senate Requesting the Judiciary Committee Grant a Hearing, ca. 01/1893

Some of the records in this series have been digitized.
These records may contain information prohibited from release by Senate Resolution 474, 96th Congress.

Credentials, 1789-1998

Selected Items
  • Credential of Hiram Revels

Some of these records have been digitized.

Petitions and Memorials [Committee on the District of Columbia], 1817-1942

Selected Categories
  • William Lloyd Garrison (file #24A-G3)
  • Petitions demanding an end to slavery in Washington, DC (files #21A-G5, #22A-G4 (), #23A-G3 (), #24A-G3 ()
  • Petitions seeking a motion to reconsider tabling the antislavery petitions (file #31A-H4)
  • Petitions decrying the District's practice of arresting and then selling undocumented "persons of color" for jail fees (file #28A-G3) ()
  • Petitions requesting aid for charities, such as the National Freedmen's Relief Association (files #40A-H5.1 (), #41A-H5.2 ())
  • Anti-Slavery Petition from New Jersey, 3/20/1850
  • Petition concerning Freedmen's Hospitals (SEN75A-J6.1)
  • Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia during the 21st Congress
  • African American suffrage (SEN39A-H4) ()

Petitions and Memorials [Committee on Education and Labor], 1870-1946

Selected Items
  • Aid for Wilberforce University in Ohio (files #41A-H6 (), #54A-J9.2)
  • Proposals that Congress use the unclaimed Colored Civil War Soldiers' Bounty Fund to finance the development of African American educational institutions (files #44A-H6 (), #45A-H6 (), #46A-H6 (), #48A-H6.1 (), #49A-H7.2 ())
  • Reimburse the Freedmens' Savings and Trust Company to aid industrial education of African Americans in the South (files #60A-J36, #61A-J22 (), #62A-J26 ())
  • Colored World's Fair to be held in Atlanta, GA (SEN50A-J7.1 ())
  • Senator John Kean's proposed Freedmen's Inquiry Commission ()

Some of the records in this series have been digitized.

Petitions and Memorials [Committee on Industrial Expositions], 1910-1913

Selected Categories
  • Petitions and memorials favoring a semi-centennial celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation (file #61A-J46)

Petitions and Memorials [Committee on Privileges and Elections], 1871-1944

Petitions and Related Documents that were Presented, Read, or Tabled, 1789-1966

Selected Items
  • Petition from Pennsylvanians to Reject Slavery, 1844,
  • Anti-Slavery Petition from the Women of Philadelphia, 1844,
  • Memorial to the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives, ca. 02/1861,
  • Anti-Slavery Petition from Women of America, 02/27/1849,
  • Petition from the Union Fire Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in Support of the Crittenden Compromise, ca. 1861,

Some of the records in this series have been digitized.

Records of Early Select Committees, 1789-1921


Some of the records in this series have been digitized.

Records Relating to Race Discrimination, 1941-1943


These records may contain information prohibited from release by Senate Resolution 474, 96th Congress.

Territorial Papers, 1789-1873

Selected Items
  • Wyandot Constitution, 07/29/1859

Some of the records in this series have been digitized.

Various Papers, 1789-1982

Selected Items
  • Cloture Motion for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Roll Call Vote Tally on S. 1564, the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Some of the records in this series have been digitized.

Photographic Materials

Berryman Political Cartoon Collection, 1896-1949

Selected Items
  • Untitled, 03/25/1948 - showing Southerners abandoning President Truman and the Democrats over the progression of civil rights
  • Reconciliation, 01/22/1907 - relating to the Brownsville, TX riot by Black soldiers
  • Record's White House Subscriber Interested, 01/08/1907 - relating to the Brownsville, TX riot
  • Tillman - The Senatorial Brothers - Foraker, 01/13/1907 - relating to the Brownsville, TX riot
  • A Bureau of Information, 10/09/1902

Some of the records in this series have been digitized.
Some records in this series may be subject to copyright restrictions.

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