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Minutes of the Proceedings of the Second Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States, Assembled in Philadelphia ...

GLC08897

to Daniel Ricketson

Thoreau writes to his good friend, a historian and poet, that he is about to take a trip to the White Mountains. He apologizes for not writing sooner. Muses on the nature of his friendships and refers to his "preaching" in the mode of Walden. "...

GLC01751.01

Speech of the Hon. Montgomery Blair, on the causes of the rebellion and in the support of the president's plan of pacification

Published by Sherwood & Co. Address delivered before the Maryland State Legislature at Annapolis 22 January 1864. States that the duty of the country is to suppress the rebellion and eliminate slavery. Encourages the unification of all parties to...

GLC01265.27

Carte-de-visite of SojournerTruth

Caption on mount reads :"I sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth." Copyright stamp on verso

GLC09082

The Anti-Slavery Record. Vol 1, no. 7.

Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, printed by S. W. Benedict & Co. With images of a schoolhouse and slave children being whipped, asks, "Which of these systems of education shall we hand down to posterity."

GLC09083

The Crisis, No. 1 or Thoughts on Slavery, Occasioned by the Missouri Question.

Printed by A. H. Maltby & Co, New Haven, Connecticut. Denounces slavery and its introduction into the new Territories: "The extension of slavery to the new and unculivated regions of the west...is a great calamity...It is a blot on the human...

GLC09062

13th annual report NAACP for the year 1922

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1923, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword states that the NAACP "has continued to carry out one of its most vital purposes, that of keeping intensely alive among the colored people of America the...

GLC06135.01

14th annual report NAACP for the year 1923

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1924, including President Moorfield Storey. An introductory letter from Storey asks for financial support from readers of the pamphlet. Foreword states that the NAACP "is striving; it is striving to vindicate...

GLC06135.02

17th annual report NAACP for the year 1926

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1927, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword states "More and more, has it been borne in upon the Association that for the present the avenue to affirmation and defense of the Negro's fundamental rights...

GLC06135.03

19th annual report NAACP for the year 1928

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword commemorates twenty years of NAACP activity. Reports on legal cases such as that of Robert Bell and Grady Swain, two boys sentenced to death on a flimsy...

GLC06135.04

20th annual report of the NAACP for the year 1929

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929. Foreword states "Uncompromising insistence upon full participation by the Negro in all phases of life is coming more and more to be the attitude of thinking and intelligent white and colored people."...

GLC06135.05

NAACP 1931 22nd annual report: a year's work for justice to the Negro

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1932. Foreword declares that the NAACP's aims "are in the path of manifest destiny of the darker races of the world. The world crisis and the social and political experiments that are its accompaniment all...

GLC06135.06

[Program from the 24th annual conference of the NAACP]

Lists Chicago NAACP officers and committee members. Cites meeting locations. Lists times for business sessions and mass meetings during the conference. Page 19 contains the lyrics for the song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," written by the diplomat...

GLC06135.07

NAACP 30th annual report for 1939

Lists NAACP officers for 1939. Includes chapters discussing lynching, education, economic opportunity, legal defense, and Department of Branches. The education chapter outlines several cases regarding the desegregation of university law schools and...

GLC06135.08.01

[To editors of an unspecified publication]

Wilkins, Assistant Secretary of the NAACP, transmits a 1939 NAACP report (refer to GLC06135.08.01). States "Any comment in your news or editorial columns will be appreciated." Typed on green paper with a typed signature.

GLC06135.08.02

Progress of a race or the remarkable advancement of the Afro-American...

Full title is: "Progress of a race or the remarkable advancement of the Afro-American from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust." Published by J. L. Nichols & Co. Co...

GLC06126.01

[Quotation of Charles Sumner on the struggle to end slavery]

Complete quotation reads: "Our cause is nobler even than that of our Fathers, in as much as it is more exalted to struggle for the Freedom of others than for our own."

GLC02095.26

[Quotation of Charles Sumner on liberty]

Complete quotation reads: "And I cannot go wrong when I lean to the side of Liberty."

GLC02095.27

[Quotation of Charles Sumner on freedom]

Complete quotation reads: "Freedom always for all!" Marked Senate Chamber.

GLC02095.28

Mr. Sumner's Lecture on White Slavery in the Barbary States.

Sumner's lecture given before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, 17 February 1847. Published by William D. Ticknor and Company. Printed in Cambridge by Metcalf and Company, printers to the University. Inscribed on the original orange cover...

GLC02095.19

The Crime Against Kansas. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts. In the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856.

Sumner delivered this speech after the May 1856 debates on slavery in Kansas. Condemns Southern advocacy of the expansion of slavery. Published by Greeley and McElrath, New York. Advertised on cover page as being "for sale at the office of the New...

GLC02095.20

[Quotation of Charles Sumner on liberty]

Complete quotation reads: "For myself in a case of doubt I feel that I cannot go wrong when I lean to the side of Liberty."

GLC02095.25

to Alexander M. Ross

One letter addressed to Alexander Ross from Anne Brown Adams dated July 31, 1887. Mentions the health of her children and reading The Life of Frederick Douglass. Does not find truth in Douglass's account of meeting John Brown. Believes that Uncle Tom...

GLC03007.15

to Lloyd Duley

Writes to her siblings about a birth, her family's health, the abundance of rain, and local deaths and marriages. Notes a meeting of the "suns of Temperance." Hopes they will visit. Mentions she has "got the headache very bad." Sent to Lloyd but...

GLC06377.03

to Alexander M. Ross

Discusses Mary Stearns and a fund to help her family. Explains that Mrs. Stearns liked her father, but not his family, recounts a story of her unkindness, and wonders if Stearns has become infirm in her old age. Adams claims to hold no grudge...

GLC03007.38