To the Home Page of the National Humanities Center Web Site National Humanities Center Toolbox Library: Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature  contact us | site guide | search 
Toolbox Library, primary resources thematically organized with notes and discussion questionsOnline Seminars, professional development seminars for history and literature teachersThe Making of African American Identity: Volume II, 1865-1917
The Making of African American Identity: Volume II, 1865-1917
Topic: FreedomTopic: IdentityTopic: InstitutionsTopic: PoliticsTopic: Forward
Topic: Freedom
Toolbox Overview: The Making of African American Identity: Volume II, 1865-1917
Resource Menu: Freedom
Text 1. The Moment of Freedom
Text 2. Booker T. Washington
Text 3. W.E.B. Du Bois
Text 4. Charles W. Chesnutt
Text 5. Citizens
•  Reading Guide
» Link


Text 6. Reconstruction
Text 7. Migration
RESOURCE MENU Reading Guide » Link

Link Page
5.  Citizens
- Equal Suffrage. Address from the Colored Citizens of Norfolk, Va., to the People of the United States, 1865, excerpts
- Alfred R. Waud, The First Vote, illustration in Harper's Weekly, 16 Nov. 1867
    Alfred R. Waud, The First Vote   
Links
Equal Suffrage: PDF file*
nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai2/freedom/text5/suffrage.pdf

The First Vote:
blackhistory.harpweek.com/7Illustrations/Reconstruction/
TheFirstVote.htm


Online
Sources


Equal Suffrage: National Humanities Center

The First Vote: HarpWeek


Printing

If you choose to print these texts:
-   Print directly from these sites.
-   Length: 7 pages.

Supplemental
sites


Address of the Colored State Convention to the People of the State of South Carolina, Nov. 1865, from History Matters

The Civil War Amendments (13, 14, 15), summary from the Philadelphia Inquirer

The Civil War Amendments, text from Northern Virginia Community College

Rights and Power: The Politics of Reconstruction, from Digital History

Voting Then, Voting Now, from The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS)

African American History and Literature, 1865-1917: Online Resources



Download the Free Acrobat Reader
*PDF file - You will need software on your computer that allows you to read and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have this software, you may download it FREE from Adobe's Web site.



Toolbox: The Making of African American Identity: Volume II, 1865-1917
Freedom | Identity | Institutions | Politics | Forward


Contact Us | Site Guide | Search


Toolbox Library: Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature
National Humanities Center
Web site comments and questions, contact: nhc_ed@nationalhumanitiescenter.org
Copyright © 2004 National Humanities Center. All rights reserved.
Revised: February 2004
nationalhumanitiescenter.org