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Selected issues of the newspaper, National Anti-Slavery Standard, which promoted equality and emancipation during the mid-19th century.

An issue of the National Freedman, an anti-slavery publication, from 1865.

The abolitionist newspaper, New National Era, was published by Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C. between 1870 and 1874.

One of the nation's first institutes of higher education to accept students with no consideration to race or gender was open from 1849 to 1860.

Historical material from the New York Central College in McGrawville, the first college in the United States founded on the principle that all qualified students were welcome, regardless of sex or race.

A collection of the anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star, published by noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the mid-19th century.

Oral history interviews with African-American residents of Nyack, NY.