Historical Documents

Cesar Chavez holding a NFWA sign
National Farm Workers Association
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Mexican agricultural laborer top sugar beets near Stockton, California.
Bracero Program
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
SVREP logo
Southwest Voter Registration Education Project
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Picture of OAS's fifty-second Assembly in Lima, Peru
Organization of American States (OAS) Charter
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Banner calling for the U.S. Navy to leave Vieques
Vieques Island Protests
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Page 1. of the Emancipation Act D.C.
District of Columbia Emancipation Act 1862
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Pro-DACA Protestors
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Supports of the Dream Act holding a Banner
Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM)
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Young Mexican men stand outside a jail in Los Angeles, California, after police arrested them during the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots.
Zoot Suit Riots
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
Newspaper documenting the court case
Botiller v. Dominguez
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Original Supreme Court documentation of Brown v. Board
Brown v. Board of Education 1954
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Plessy v. Ferguson decided judgement
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
John Paul Stevens, the author of the majority opinion
INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
"Help the Guatemalans!" poster
American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Temporary Protection Status (TPS)
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
House proposing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution
Civil Rights Act 1866
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Cesar Chaves with Robert Kennedy at the end of his fast
1968 Fasting Statement
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Civil Rights Act (1964)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
A mother and daughter sit outside the Supreme Court
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Picture of Cesar Chavez
1984 Commonwealth Club Address
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan (Spiritual Plan of Aztlan)
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's), ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Original Document of Former President Harry Turman's Executive order 9981
Executive Order 9981
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)

Historical Images

Man waiting in the colored-waiting room bus station in Durham, NC.
Jim Crow Era: Durham NC
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)