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1. Turns of the Centuries -Photograph Postcard "Second Baptist Church" [Turns Exhibit]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... and Community In the decades following the Civil War, African Americans struggled to exercise ... newly acquired civil rights and obligations. Immediately following the war, these "new ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 419  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/turns/view.jsp?itemid=7246&subthemeid=14
2. Turns of the Centuries -Mary: Lamson family servant [Turns Exhibit]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... African Americans in the decades following the Civil War. Racism, economic downturns and ... crises combined to encourage hundreds of thousands of southern blacks to migrate north in search ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 415  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/turns/view.jsp?itemid=11175&subthemeid=15
3. Turns of the Centuries -"Firing the Cannon" [Turns Exhibit]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... was a popular game. Although the Civil War had ended over thirty years before ... it loomed large in the imagination of these boys photographed acting out their romanticized vision ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 392  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/turns/view.jsp?itemid=3230&subthemeid=1
4. Turns of the Centuries -Portrait of W. E. B. Du Bois [Turns Exhibit]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... race relations or provide southern blacks the civil rights guaranteed to them under the Constitution ... officially ended in 1877. This post-Civil War policy failed to improve race relations or ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 385  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/turns/view.jsp?itemid=13147&subthemeid=16
5. Turns of the Centuries -Portrait of Sojourner Truth from the "Narrative of Sojourner Truth" [Turns Exhibit]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... In the years leading up to the Civil War orators and writers publicized the injustice ... horrid conditions of slavery. Free African Americans themselves galvanized the public conscience by speaking ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 371  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/turns/view.jsp?itemid=13158&subthemeid=14
6. Turns of the Centuries -"Learning By Doing At Hampton" [Turns Exhibit]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... in 1868 to educate freedmen after the Civil War. It began admitting Native American ... in 1878. According to a report published in 1901, its purpose was " ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 364  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/turns/view.jsp?itemid=13161&subthemeid=18
7. Turns of the Centuries -"The Reformed Pastor" [Turns Exhibit]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... Cromwell's New Model Army during the English Civil War. We know Hannah could read ... write not only because she wrote her name on this book, but also because ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 364  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/turns/view.jsp?itemid=12867&subthemeid=3
8. Turns of the Centuries -African Americans,1780-1820 [Turns Exhibit]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... contentious. In the decades preceding the Civil War, orators and writers publicized the ... and horrid conditions of slavery. Free African Americans played an essential role in galvanizing ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 364  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/turns/theme.jsp?x=2&y=5
9. Turns of the Centuries -"The Reformed Pastor" [Turns Exhibit]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... Cromwell's New Model Army during the English Civil War. We know Hannah could read ... write not only because she wrote her name on this book, but also because ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 364  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/turns/view.jsp?itemid=12867&img=0&level=advanced&transcription=1&subthemeid=3
10. Turns of the Centuries -"Learning By Doing At Hampton" [Turns Exhibit]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... in 1868 to educate freedmen after the Civil War. It began admitting Native American ... in 1878. According to a report published in 1901, its purpose was " ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 360  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/turns/view.jsp?itemid=13161&img=0&level=advanced&transcription=1&subthemeid=18

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