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Civil War Amendments Up to the Civil Rights Movement: January 2023

Civil War Amendments Up to the Civil Rights Movement: January 2023

Session One: Slavery and the Civil War

Slavery a Positive Good, John C. Calhoun, 1837
The Corner Stone Speech, Alexander H. Stephens, 1861
“What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,” Frederick Douglass, 1852, National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment!
“The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” Frederick Douglass, 1852, Africans in America, Part 4, PBS
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), National Constitution Center
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), National Archives
Slavery and American Economic Development by Gavin Wright, LSU Press, 2006
The Mudsill Speech, James H. Hammond, 1858
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, U.S. Senate, 1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), National Archives, archives.gov
Cooper Institute Address (1860), Abraham Lincoln, National Constitution Center
Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address, Reenactment by Sam Waterston, C-SPAN
Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Galesburg, 1858, National Park Service
Speech at Ottawa, Abraham Lincoln, 1858, George Mason University
Missouri Compromise (1820), National Archives
Electoral College 1860, Map, Wikipedia
Republican Party Platform of 1856, The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
Trans-Atlantic Slave Database, SlaveVoyages
How the Wilmot Proviso Inflamed North-South Divisions in 1846, History Channel
Wilmot Provisio Transcript, National Archives
A Congressman “Pleads the Case of White Men,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers
The Rights of Colored Men (1838), National Constitution Center

Session Two: Reconstruction 1865 – 1890

Black Codes (1865), National Constitution Center
Black Codes of Mississippi, Teaching American History
Civil Rights Act of 1866, “An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication,” National Constitution Center
Cowan on 1866, Congressional Globe, Senate, 39th Congress, 1st Session, page 499
Frederick Douglass Project Writings: Our Work Is Not Done, University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries
Excerpts on Black Suffrage
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868), National Archives
House Passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, U.S. House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives
14th Amendment - Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt, National Constitution Center
President Ulysses S. Grant and Federal Indian Policy, U.S. National Park Service, nps.gov
President Andrew Johnson’s Veto Message, The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
Veto of the First Reconstruction Act, Teaching American History
Andrew Johnson and the Veto of the Civil Rights Bill, Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, U.S. National Park Service
President Grant’s Special Message, March 30,1870, The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
President Grant Takes on the Ku Klux Klan, U.S. National Park Service, nps.gov
President Grant’s May 3, 1871: Message Regarding Fourteenth Amendment, Miller Center, University of Virginia
Documenting Reconstruction Violence, Reconstruction in America Report, Equal Justice Initiative
Republican Party Platform of 1880, The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
Supreme Court Cases
“Lyman Trumbull, Introduction of the Civil Rights Bill, U.S. Senate, January 29, 1866,” House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College

Session Three: Jim Crow Era 1890 – 1965

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), National Archives, archives.gov
Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party, The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
FOR ACTION ON RACE RIOT PERIL, The New York Times, October 5, 1919
The Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
Immigration Act of 1924, DocsTeach.org, National Archives
The Racial Transformation of America, Madison Grant, JSTOR
Plessy v. Ferguson, National Archives
Red Summer, Wikipedia
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, PBS
Benjamin R. Tillman Speech in the Senate, Teaching American History
Executive Order 9980, Dated July 26, 1948, in which President Truman sets Regulations Governing Fair Employment Practices within the Federal Establishment, DocsTeach.org, National Archives
President Truman’s Special Message to the Congress on Civil Rights, The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition