The exhibition is divided into four sections

Set nine, for example, contains booklet entitled Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass on Indian Emancipation and the Dred Scott Decision. Browse The Frederick Douglass Papers. The papers are divided into series of nine sets. The resulting bloodshed in Kansas, like later incidents at Harpers Ferry, presaged the violent conflict of the Civil War.

from and the Continental Congress to with special attention to the Fugitive Slave Law of and the probable dissolution of the Union. Read the Documentary History of Slavery in the United States Senate against the Compromise of postponed the Civil War by decade. Search on the term Alabama to learn more about events in the state, such as the arrest of Rosa Parks. Search on Alabama to see images taken by the FSA photographers Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post Wolcott, and Carl Mydans. Browse The Frederick Douglass Papers.

from and the Continental Congress to with special attention to the Fugitive Slave Law of and the probable dissolution of the Union. Ironically, on 7, exactly years before Bloody Sunday Daniel Webster gave his famous Seventh of speech in favor of the Compromise of and Henry Clays appointment as secretary of state on 7, Popular sovereignty undermined the Missouri compromise by suggesting the earlier division of the country along the thirtysixth parallel into free states and slave states no longer applied.

The situation was particularly egregious in the city of Selma, in Dallas County, it was stated on the floor of CongressJohn Lewis went on to serve as Director of the Voter Education Project, program that eventually added nearly four million minorities to the voter rolls. Asked to contrast this experience with that of the Congressman responded, This time when looked there were womens faces and there were black faces among the troopers.

The Great Migration made northerners more aware of disenfranchisement in the Deep South and newspapers like The Gazette and The Advocate fostered awareness within the black community. Nevertheless, search across the Photos and Prints section of American Memory on the term Selma, Alabama in the black and white photos of the Farm Services Administration collection, FSAOWI Photographs, 19351945 to see images of the city taken during the by the photographer Walker Evans. Tags: history, parks, Selma