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First release. |
| Description |
data file |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Title from home page as viewed on Jan. 21, 1999. |
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"American Memory, Library of Congress." |
| Summary |
"The African American odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship", highlights what was on view in the exhibition, and what is available in the Library's African American collection. Both include a wide array of important and rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings. Based on the text of the same name, additional collections are forthcoming to this site. The portions of the exhibit that are not currently available online are: "Fine Prints and Photographs by Twentieth-Century African American Artists," and Black Business and Family Life at the Turn of the Century in the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection." |
| Contents |
African American odyssey : a quest for full citizenship (documents and text from an exhibit at the Library of Congress) -- From slavery to freedom : the African-American pamphlet collection, 1824-1909 (the full-text of 397 pamphlets by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics) -- Born in slavery : slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 photographs of former slaves) |
| Subject |
African Americans -- History -- Exhibitions.
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African Americans. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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History.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
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