In the ARC keywords box, copy and paste the name of one of the famous and notable individuals featured below. For any of the topics listed under Highlighted Records and Images below, copy and paste the "Sample ARC Search" keywords. Check the digital copies box in ARC to find only digitized documents and photographs. How to Search in ARC provides more detailed instructions.
ARC ID 535610, "Democracy's Forge", 1943
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Charles Henry Altson
(Artist)
Over 100 original sketches by Altson, highlighting African American participation in World War II, are digitized in ARC. |
ARC ID 535928 [Marian Anderson with veterans, 1945]
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Marian Anderson
(Opera Singer and Delegate to United Nations ) |
ARC ID 596218 [Draft Registration Card for Louis Armstrong, 1918]
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Louis Armstrong
(Jazz Musician) |
 ARC ID 542051 [Baldwin at March on Washington, 1963]
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James Baldwin
(Activist and Author) |
ARC ID 559194, Mary McLeod Bethune
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Mary McLeod Bethune
(Activist and Educator) |
ARC ID 531201 [Bejamin O. Davis, Sr., 1944]
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Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.
(First African American Army General) |
ARC ID 535718 [Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., 1942]
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Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
(Commander of Tuskegee Airmen in World War II
and First African American Air Force General) |
ARC ID 558770, Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879
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Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, and Orator) |
ARC ID 559200, W.E.B. DuBois
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W. E. B. DuBois
(Civil Rights Leader and Scholar) |
ARC ID 194289, [Detail of] Richard M. Nixon presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Duke Ellington, 04/24/1969
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Duke Ellington
(Jazz Musician) |
ARC ID 542069 [Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking at March on Washington, 1963]
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Civil Rights Leader and Minister)  |
ARC ID 306369 [Message of President Lyndon B. Johnson nominating Thurgood Marshall ... Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 06/13/1967]
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Thurgood Marshall
(First African American Supreme Court Justice) |
ARC ID 596069, Diagram of the Bus Showing Where Rosa Parks Was Seated
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Rosa Parks
(Civil Rights Leader) |
ARC ID 594395 [Colin L. Powell]
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Colin Powell
(Army General and 65th U.S. Secretary of State) |
ARC ID 535874 [Paul Robeson with Moore Shipyard workers, 1942]
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Paul Robeson
(Actor and Civil Rights Activist) |
ARC ID 542024 [Jackie Robinson with his son at March on Washington, 1963]
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Jackie Robinson
(Baseball Player and Civil Rights Activist) |
ARC ID 559120 [Portrait of Harriet Tubman]
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Harriet Tubman
(Abolitionist and Underground Railroad Guide) |
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Topic
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Sample ARC Search
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ARC ID 301672, Opinion of the Supreme Court in United States v. the Amistad, 03/09/1841
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Amistad Case |
Amistad |
ARC ID 542003 [March on Washington, 1963]
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Civil Rights |
civil rights march or civil rights act or civil rights leader% |
ARC ID 299909, Act of August 6, 1965 (Voting Rights Act of 1965), Public Law 89-110 ...
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
Voting Rights Act or Civil Rights Act |
ARC ID 300389, [Casualty List of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment ... Assault on Fort Wagner ... 1863]
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Civil War |
(Black or colored or African American) and (troop% or soldier% or wom%n) and Civil War |
ARC ID 279427, Death and Interment Record for James W. Anderson
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Civil War Soldiers
(Death and Internment at Camp Nelson) |
death and internment record |
ARC ID 556263, Black Student in a Black Studies Class ... 1973
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Education and Children |
(African American or Black) and (education or school% or student% or children) |
ARC ID 279106, [Page 398 from Testimony of John Julian Brooks in Dorothy E. Davis Case, 1952]
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Education and School Desegregation
(Brown v. Board
and Dorothy E. Davis cases) |
(desegregation or Brown v. Board or Dorothy E. Davis) and (school% or education) |
ARC ID 299998, Emancipation Proclamation, 01/01/1863
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Emancipation Proclamation |
Emancipation Proclamation |
ARC ID 556233, ... African-American Family at Chicago's Church of the Messiah, 08/1973
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Families and Children |
(African American or Black or colored or {African-American}) and (famil% or child% or mother% or father%) |
ARC ID 278352 [Petition of Jacob H. Grove, 05/25/1854]
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Fugitive Slaves |
fugitive slave or fugitive slaves |
ARC ID 596089, Harlem Street Scene
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Harlem |
Harlem |
ARC ID 559154, "Washer Woman" by Hale A. Woodruff
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Harmon Foundation
(in support of African American artists) |
Harmon Foundation |
ARC ID 533506, [Jazz Band with 15th New York], 02/12/1919
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Jazz |
jazz |
ARC ID 521385 [Jefferson Baptist Church in Putnam County, Georgia, 1941]
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Religion and Christianity |
(African American or {African-American} or Negro or Black) and (church or Christianity or religion) |
ARC ID 301674, Judgment in the U.S. Supreme Court Case Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford, 03/06/1857
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Slavery |
slaves or slavery |
ARC ID 650716, Memorandum Terminating the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, 11/16/1972
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Tuskegee Syphilis Study |
Tuskegee Syphilis Study |
ARC ID 556134, [Young Woman in Chicago, 1973]
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Women |
(Black or colored or African American or {African-American}) and (wom%n or girl%) |
ARC ID 531137 [Second Lieutenants at Fort Benning, Georgia,] 05/29/1942
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World War I
and World War II |
(Black or colored or Negro or African American%) and (World War or 369th) |
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