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The Songbook showcases the early depiction of a minstrel show character, Jim Crow. It wasn't until the late 1800s that the expression "Jim Crow" was used to describe the laws and customs aimed at segregating society, restricting social contact and…

Citizens were required to pay a poll tax to register to vote. These fees restricted poor African Americans from voting. This receipt is from Birmingham, Alabama in 1896. The poll tax was for the entire year.

The members of the United States Supreme Court in 1896-1897. Under Chief Justice Melville Fuller, the Court established the separate but equal rule following the pivotal Plessy v Ferguson Case.

Morton McMichael declines to state whether or not he is in support of allowing freed slaves to ride in the City passenger railway cars. Daniel M. Fox states that he is in opposition of such privileges.

"Jump Jim Crow" song sheet with lyrics of the song popularly performed by white comedians, including Thomas Dartmouth Rice.

Reunion of members of both the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans in Gettysburg, 1913.

Autopsy report describing evidence of brain injury that can be linked to PTSD symptoms.

Soldier Samuel Decker, standing next to the artificial arms he designed for himself after losing both of his arms.

Photograph of Oliver Wendell Holmes, eventual lieutenant of the 20th Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers, found in "Touched with Fire: Civil War Letters and Diaries of Wendell Holmes Jr, 1861-1864" edited by Mark De Wolfe Howe.

This picture depicts one of the separate drinking water that enforces segregation between African Americans and Whites.

These combined posters represent primary sources from the Civil Rights Movement.

Civil War hospital in Washington D.C. This hospital was cleaner and more organized than hospitals developed at the start of the Civil War.

Field hospital at Savage Station, Virginia. This was taken in 1862, and shows how disorganized early hospitals were. We can see how easy it was for disease to spread.

Thomas D. Rice was the man who became the most famous for the creation of Jim Crow.

KKK Pamphlet cover
This pamphlet was by Colonel William Joseph Simmons, Imperial Wizard and Emperor of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Original pamphlet located in the MASC collections in Holland Library, Washington State…

KKK Nathan Bedford Forrest, Leader of the KKK.
Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877). . http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/Confederate_Generals.htm, accessed 11/30/15, picture in public domain.

Three Ku Klux Klan members arrested in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, September 1871, for the attempted murder of an entire family "History of the Ku Klux Klan - Preach the Cross". preachthecross.net. Accessed 11/30/15.

KKK Membership Pamphlet, mission and goals, statements of purpose.

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