Overall Vocabulary:
Federal court, economic equality, district court, slave, cargo, manifest, customs, assimilation, bill of sale, plantation, future increase, segregation, precedent, interracial, due process, oppression, inalienable, unalienable.
Certificate, U.S. v. Slaves of the Syrena, May 12, 1820
Real Armada, enrolls (noun)
Travel Document for the Schooner Syrena, 1817
Province, First Alcade
Cinque Addressing his Compatriots, on board the Spanish Schooner Amistad, 26. Aug. 1839
Caribbean plantation
Plea to the Jurisdiction of Cinque (Singhe Pieh) and Others, August 21, 1839 Ruinous injustice, plea, libel, brig, salvage, process of court, aforesaid, respondents, protestations, surmised, libellant, confederating, asylum, meritorious act, jurisdiction, “under color of which”
Warrant for Habeas Corpus, Schooner Amistad, September 21, 1939
[sic], adjudge, writ, habeas corpus
Petition by John Hill Wheeler, July 18, 1855
Detained, abide
Writ of Habeas Corpus, July 19, 1855
Abolitionist, cause celebre, Writ of Habeas Corpus
Photograph, Passmore Williamson in Mayamensing Prison, 1855
Legal technicality
Dowry Gift of Slaves, June 11, 1773
Dowry, future increase, intermarriage, acknowledged, granted, bargained, division of the estate, to witt, moiety, allotted, aforesaid, survivor, purporting, sole/ covert status, heir at law, devised, covenant
Section II: Broke At Last
Section Panel
“Jim Crow” laws
Letter from Frederick Douglass to the Secretary of State, June 25, 1889
Minister Resident, Counsel General, potent, thither, tendered, “suit your convenience”
List of Passengers for Barque Azor bound to Monrovia, April 20, 1878 Emigrants, maiden voyage
Request for Compensation, ca. 1898
“Annexed portion,” “prosecution and allowance”
Defining Rights (Story Panel) Peonage, sharecropping, eroded individual rights, curtailed rights
Wong Kim Ark’s Departure Statement, November 5, 1894 Illegal immigrant, Chinese Exclusion Act, “set my hand,” affixed, annexed instrument
Wong Kim Ark’s Discharge, January 3, 1896 Jurisdiction
Section III: This Land Is Your Land
Section Panel Assimilate, social inequalities
Record of Conviction, June 28, 1873 (facsimile) Prayed, “upon the said process,” arraigned, indictment, issue joined, disposal, empanelled
Petition for Woman Suffrage, 1877 (facsimile) Disenfranchising, elective franchise
Letter from Indian Affairs Commissioner Charles Burke, April 7, 1926 Peyote
Mission Indian Federation Constitution, ca. 1922
Non-sectarian
Receipt and Full Satisfaction of Judgment, July 30, 1944 Allotment, assimilation, plaintiff, acknowledged
Registration Affidavit of Alien Enemy, February 8, 1918 Enemy alien
Bill of Complaint, January 7, 1921 Petition for naturalization
Speech by Eugene V. Debs, June 16, 1918
Yonder, workhouse, prudent, sycophant, four-square, Hoosier state, capitalist press, notwithstanding
Brochure, Relocating a People, February 1, 1943 Evacuee, relocation
Handbill in Japanese and English Translation, United States v. George Fujii, circa 1943 Selective service, handbills, sedition, relocation, internment, drafted, Jap, Caucasian
Official Logbook, St. George Island, June 16-29, 1942 Invasion, leveled, evacuation, mined, TNT, stanchioned, outboard engines, enroute, bed-pan
Petition Protesting Conditions at Pribilof Evacuation Camp, October 10, 1942
Mess house, evacuee camp, grub
Section IV: A Change Is Gonna Come
Photograph, Martin Luther King in Civil Rights March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963 Hallmark
Booklet, The Montgomery Improvement Association, circa 1960 Foray, boycott, demonstrations, negate, Negro, state apparatus, protagonists, sit-ins, workshops, seminars, non-violent resistance, loitering, intimidation, perjury, “behead this affirmative movement,” demoralize, moral support, re-affirmation
Statement, Hernandez v. Corpus Christi, December 18, 1956
Stereotyped, latin child, appellees, brief (noun), prejudice (legal term)
Indictment, U.S. v. Junius Irving Scales, November 18, 1954 Indictment, Grand Jury
General Court Martial Orders, August 23, 1944 Insubordination, general court-martial, arraigned, contemptuously, insolent, impertinent, receiving room
Request for Retirement from Active Duty, August 25, 1944 “Color line,” acquitted, outfit (Army term)
Complaint, Ella Fitzgerald et al v. Pan American, December 23, 1954 Discrimination, malicious, plaintiff, defendant
Appeal Request from Lenny Bruce, December 15, 1964 Plaintiff, appeal, denying motion
Section V: We Shall Overcome
Section Panel “equal protection clause,” catalyst
Judgment, Brown v. Board of Education, May 31, 1955 (facsimile) Racially nondiscriminatory, counsel, transcript, adjudged, consideration, remanded, proceedings, orders, decrees
