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  • Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" July 5, 1852 (pdf and html)
  • Abraham Lincoln, The Emancipation Proclamation (html)
  • Decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (html)
  • Assorted readings from the Harlem Renaissance 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
  • "The Waco Horror," The Crisis, Vol. 12 (July 1916), supplement, pp. 1-8 (html)
  • Booker T. Washington, Speech at the Atlanta Exposition (html)
  • Decision in Brown v. Board (html)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963 (pdf and html)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream," April 16, 1963 (pdf and html)
  • Robert F. Kennedy, Speech on the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. (html)