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Ethnic Studies Collection

This collection of primary sources represents a variety of American voices.

Selected and introduced by Adam Seagrave

Massachusetts Antislavery Petition

Prince Hall

1777

Commonwealth v. Nathaniel Jennison

William Cushing

1783

Address to the People of the United States, by the General Council of the Cherokee Nation

John Ross

1830

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

Frederick Douglass

1852

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Benjamin R. Curtis, John McLean & Roger Taney

1857

Japanese American Evacuation

1942

THE BATTLE BETWEEN MARINES AND PACHUCOS

1943

Korematsu v. US

Owen Roberts & William Murphy

1944

Articles of Incorporation of the Supreme Council of the Mexican-American Movement

1945

Ten Point Program

Bobby Seale & Huey Newton

1967

Alcatraz Proclamation

Indians of All Tribes

1969

For the Equal Rights Amendment

Shirley Chisholm

1970

Eulogy for Rufino Contreras

Cesar Chavez

1979

California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians

Byron R. White

1987

Survivor Returns to Site of Last Indian Massacre

Nicholas K. Geranios

1988

Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.