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1892 | Book
A Voice From the South: By A Woman of the South
Anna J. Cooper, the first African American woman to earn a PhD, worked as a speaker, educator, and reformer. In this excerpt from Voice From the South Cooper addresses the contrast between the expectations of any middle-class, well-dressed woman traveling and the realities of the experience for African American women. Read with Richard Wells' Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society, also featured on this site.
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1892 | Time Table
Santa Fe Route
This 1892 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe time table featured detailed insets with maps of its subsidiary lines.
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April 4, 1892 | Journal
Our Civil Rights
As African American civil rights are threatened with increasing segregation, a writer for a noted African American publication analyzes the situation.
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1893 | Time Table
Chicago Great Western Railway
The Chicago Great Western Railway's 1893 time table placed its line in the center of a globe-like image. The road stressed its comfortable "compartmented sleeping cars."
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1893 | Book
The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition
Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Irvine Garland Penn, Ferdinand L. Barnett, and Frederick Loudin published The Reason Why in response to the exclusion of Afircan Americans and their contributions to American life from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The excerpt included here is part of Wells' contribution and includes the Tennessee separate coach law.
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April 5, 1893 | Newspaper
Rights of Negroes
The decision for Maime Caldwell in her case against the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company for discrimination is briefly recounted, noting the final award of $800.
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May 18, 1896 | Legal decision
Excerpts from Plessy v. Ferguson decision
These excerpts from the Supreme Court's Plessy v Ferguson decision outline primary points of the seven-man decision that asserted the constitutionality of "separate but equal" facilities.
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May 18, 1896 | Legal decision
Excerpts from Plessy v. Ferguson dissent
These excerpts from Justice John Harlan's dissent from the Supreme Court's Plessy v Ferguson decision include scathing counter-arguments to the majority decision that asserted the legality of "separate but equal" facilities.
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July 9, 1896 | Speech
Speech Concluding Debate on the Chicago Platform
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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July 13, 1896 | Speech
Champaign, IL Speech, 1896-07-13
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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July 13, 1896 | Speech
Effingham, IL Speech, 1896-07-13
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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July 13, 1896 | Speech
Mattoon, IL Speech, 1896-07-13
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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July 13, 1896 | Speech
Salem, IL Speech, 1896-07-13
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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July 14, 1896 | Speech
Centralia, IL Speech, 1896-07-14
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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July 15, 1896 | Speech
Salem, IL Speech 1, 1896-07-15
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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July 15, 1896 | Speech
Salem, IL Speech 2, 1896-07-15
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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July 16, 1896 | Speech
California, MO Speech, 1896-07-16
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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July 16, 1896 | Speech
Chamois, MO Speech, 1896-07-16
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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July 16, 1896 | Speech
Jefferson City, MO Speech, 1896-07-16
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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July 16, 1896 | Speech
Kansas City, MO Speech 1, 1896-07-16
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
