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Mr. Chief Justice Marshall delivered the opinion of the Court: This bill is brought by the Cherokee Nation, praying an injunction to restrain the state of Georgia from the execution of certain laws of that state, which as is alleged, go directly to annihilate the Cherokees as a political society, and to seize, for the… MORE
In 1851, Sojourner Truth, a freed slave from New York, purportedly asked, “Ain’t I a Woman?” at a women’s convention in Akron, Ohio. That same year, William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Boston based abolition newspaper The Liberator declared forcefully “The Slave is a Man!” Debates around the abolition of slavery between 1820 and 1860… MORE
Warning! These recordings are historical artifacts reflecting the beliefs of Stephen Foster as he wrote them in the nineteenth century and recording artists who performed his work during the Jim Crow Era. The caricatured language and content may be offensive to contemporary listeners and viewers. They are for educational purposes only. In 1828, T.D. “Big… MORE
On March 6, 1857, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court came to a decision concerning African Americans in the law and the nation. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney declared, “In the opinion of the court, the legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show, that neither… MORE