* Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (1861)
* Confederate President Jefferson Davis's Inaugural Address (1861)
* The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
* The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1865)
* Frederick Douglass's "What the Black Man Wants" (1865)
* The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
* The Compromise of 1877
* Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" speech (1895)
* W.E.B. Du Bois's "The Souls of Black Folk" (1903)
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