The Social Club committed its resources to establishing a library and trying to ensure good teachers for the African American schools.

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. In spite of glittering new buildings, sanitation conditions were deplorable. Open drainage ditches and backyard cisterns bred yellow fever–carrying mosquitoes. …

Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-DIG-ppmsca-09326) The ensuing Civil War wrought immense destruction on much of the South, which lost the …

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: cph 3g02399) The Fifteenth Amendment, guaranteeing that the right to vote could not be denied based on “race, color, or previous condition of …

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Before long the great ship companies of Europe were competing for this very profitable trade. At first the Europeans brought most of the enslaved Black people to the …

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Within a few years vessels of this type swarmed on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. In January 1834, 230 steamboats and 4,000 flatboats were listed …

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