Prologue: Special Issue
Summer 1997: African American History
This issue focuses on the use of federal records in African American historical research. Sixteen articles by NARA staff and other historians explore the depth and breadth of material in the National Archives relative to African Americans. This issue examines the Civil War and Reconstruction, labor issues, civil rights, pictorial records, and research aids.
This issue is out of print and not available for purchase, but you can read all of the articles online.
Contents
Prologue in Perspective: Voices of African Americans in Federal Records
John W. Carlin
Dedication: In Memory of Sara Dunlap Jackson, May 28, 1919-April 19, 1991
Ira Berlin
Introduction
Institutions of Memory and the Documentation of African Americans in Federal Records
Walter B. Hill, Jr.
Preserving the Legacy of the United States Colored Troops
Budge Weidman
Freedmen's Bureau Records: An Overview
Elaine C. Everly
From Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black Women's History in the Civil War Era
Noralee Frankel
Slave Emancipation Through the Prism of Archives Records
Joseph P. Reidy
Labor Issues
African Americans and the American Labor Movement
James Gilbert Cassedy
The Panama Canal: The African American Experience
Patrice C. Brown
Black Domestics During the Depression: Workers, Organizers, Social Commentators
Phyllis Palmer
Civil Rights
Documenting the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Decade of the Sixties
Geraldine N. Phillips
An Archival Odyssey: The Search for Jackie Robinson
John Vernon
Pictorial Records
From Sophie's Alley to the White House: Rediscovering the Visions of Pioneering Black Government Photographers
Nicholas Natanson