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African American Odyssey

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html

Provider: Library of Congress

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Appropriate grades
6–12
Subjects
social studies (African Americans)
Provider
Library of Congress

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This website is an online version of the Library of Congress The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship exhibition. By using a variety of materials such as books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, and plays that span over 200 years, the Library of Congress seeks not only to offer a glimpse into the Library's vast African-American collections, but also to explore black America's quest for equality. Beginning with slavery and continuing through history to the Civil Rights Movement, this site uses a combination of images and writings to document their struggle.

The exhibit is separated into nine sections:

  • Slavery: The Peculiar Institution
  • Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period
  • Abolition
  • The Civil War
  • Reconstruction
  • Booker T. Washington Era
  • World War I and Postwar Society
  • Depression, New Deal, and World War II
  • Civil Rights