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The collection explores the role of African Americans in the General Electric workforce.
A collection of the African Repository and Colonial Journal which was published in 1837 by the American Colonization Society.
Albion W. Tourgee (1838 - 1905) was a Civil War veteran, politician, and lawyer. He played a pivotal role in the Plessy v. Ferguson case and was a pioneering civil rights activist. This collection includes his correspondence, as well as legal documents, articles, and photographs.
An 1843 publication by the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society relating to the abolishment of slavery.
Selected issues of the abolitionist newspaper, The Anti-Slavery Record, published in 1836.
Cartoons drawn by Polish immigrant, Henryk Archacki, representing current events at the time with a sense of Polish pride.