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• African Americans -- History -- 18th century

• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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• Free at Last: The U.S. Civil Rights Movement (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2008), by Michael Jay Friedman (PDF at state.gov)
• The Color of Representation: Congressional Behavior and Black Interests (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Kenny J. Whitby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Justice for All: The Legacy of Thurgood Marshall (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), ed. by George Clack and Mildred Sola Neely (PDF at state.gov)
• Our Home Colony: A Treatise on the Past, Present and Future of the Negro Race in America (Steubenville, OH: Herald Printing Co., c1908), by Moses Fleetwood Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selma to Montgomery national trail study, April 1993 : a study of the voting rights march (The Service, 1993), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Why disfranchisement is bad (Philadelphia : Press of E.A. Wright, [1904], 1904), by Archibald Henry Grimké and Edward H. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A speech on "Equality before the law" (Printed at the Democrat Book and Job Printing House, 1866), by John Mercer Langston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten (F. Bassermann, 1855), by Berthold Auerbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The black codes, 1865-1867 (1912), by Byne Frances Goodman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The patriot dead : oration ([Norfolk, Va.] : "Cailloux" Post, No. 7, G.A.R., Dept. of Virginia, [1873?], 1873), by John Mercer Langston and Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Book for the People! To Be Read by All Voters, Black and White, with Thrilling Events of the Life of Norvel Blair, of Grundy County, State of Illinois (Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880), by Norvel Blair (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Intimidation and the Number of White and Colored Voters in Louisiana in 1876, As Shown by Statistical Data Derived From Republican Official Reports (New York: Picayune Office Job Print., 1877), by Stanford E. Chaillé (page images at HathiTrust)

• The legislation of 1865 concerning freedmen : a letter (Democratic-Conservative Executive Committee, 1875), by James Z. George, J.J. Halbert, and Democratic Party (Miss.). State Executive Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles S. Aiken (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Republican Party in Tennessee reorganized : to the Republicans of Tennessee and the United States : memorial, resolutions, and proceedings had at a convention held at the capitol, Nashville, February 16th, 1870 : together with the speeches of A.J. Fletcher and J.O. Shackelford. (The Party, 1870), by Tenn.) Republican Party (Tenn.). State Convention (1870 : Nashville, A. J. Fletcher, and J. O. Shackelford (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Republican Party in Tennessee reorganized : to the Republicans of Tennessee and the United States : memorial, resolutions, and proceedings had at a convention held at the capitol, Nashville, February 16th, 1870 : together with the speeches of A.J. Fletcher and J.O. Shackelford. (The Party, 1870), by Tenn.) Republican Party (Tenn.). State Convention (1870 : Nashville, A. J. Fletcher, and J. O. Shackelford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black Citizenship and Authenticity in the Civil Rights Movement (New York and London: Routledge, c2013), by Randolph Hohle
  • PDF files with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
• Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten (F. Bassermann, 1855), by Berthold Auerbach (page images at HathiTrust)

• Twentieth century civil rights collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress : a selected checklist (The Division, 1991), by Library of Congress Manuscript Division and Debra Newman Ham (page images at HathiTrust)

• Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Global Freedom Struggle (online encyclopedia based on Carson-edited "Martin Luther King, Jr., Encyclopedia"), contrib. by Clayborne Carson (illustrated HTML at Stanford)

• Twentieth century civil rights collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress : a selected checklist (The Division, 1991), by Library of Congress Manuscript Division and Debra Newman Ham (page images at HathiTrust)

• Federal records relating to civil rights in the post-World War II era (National Archives and Records Administration, 2006), by Walter B. Hill and United States National Archives and Records Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers From World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Judson MacLaury (PDF at Tennessee)

• Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Angela D. Dillard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles S. Aiken (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Statement From Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as to the Negro in Georgia (ca. 1921), by Hugh Manson Dorsey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Civil Rights and African Americans: A Documentary History (with new preface; Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, c1991), ed. by Albert P. Blaustein and Robert L. Zangrando (page images at HathiTrust)

• Federal records pertaining to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) (National Archives and Records Administration, 2004), by United States National Archives and Records Administration, Trichita M. Chestnut, and Walter B. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)

• The National Urban League Southern Regional Office : a register of its records in the Library of Congress. (Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 1983), by Library of Congress Manuscript Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forgotten Patriots: African American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War, A Guide to Service, Sources and Studies (second edition; Washington: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, c2008), ed. by Eric Grundset (PDF with supplementand other commentary at dar.org)

• No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Rachel B. Herrmann (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• An account of the endeavours used by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts to instruct the Negroe slaves in New York : together with two of Bp. Gibson's letters on that subject : being an extract from Dr. Humphreys's historical account of the incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, from its foundation to the year 1728. ([Place of publication not identified], Printed at London : [publisher not identified], In 1730., 1730), by David Humphreys and John Ralph Willis (page images at HathiTrust)