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Civil War
The American Civil
War Homepage Great collection of links and resources.
CivilWar.com
Civil War Related
Web Links
Black Troops
Soldiers
of Glory: U.S. Colored Troops in the Civil War By
Kim Gaines. From The Black Collegian.
Colored
Troops in the Civil War From AmericanCivilWar.com
Civil
War Freedom Fighters Links to information on black troops in the Civil
War. Researched and compiled by Bennie J. McRae Jr.
54th Massachusetts Company B History
and links by Civil War re-enactors.
Milliken's Bend
A site honoring the contributions of black soldiers during the Civil War.
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation
Proclamation Story of the proclamation. From Spartacus.
Emancipation
Proclamation From the U.S. National Archives & Records Administration.
(Primary source document)
Frederick Douglass
Frederick
Douglass, Abolitionist Editor A biography by Sandra Thomas.
Frederick Douglass Museum
and Cultural Center
Frederick Douglass National
Historic Site
Links to information on Douglass.
Primary
Sources
Men
of Color to Arms! An editorial from Frederick Douglass calling for
black men to join the Union army.
Report of Col.
T. W. Higginson, First South Carolina Infantry (Union) Report from
an officer commanding African-American troops.
Emancipation
Proclamation Background, timeline, and digital copies of the document.
From the Library of Congress.
The Frederick
Douglass Papers Documents written by Douglass. From the Library of
Congress.
Narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglass Douglass' autobiography. From Berkeley
Digital Library SunSITE.
Selected Civil
War Photographs From the Library of Congress.
Videos
Glory A 1989
film on the 54th Massachusetts Infantry's attack on Fort Wagner.
Civil
War, Forever Free Episode 3 of Ken Burn's epic deals with the Emancipation
Proclamation. PBS Video.
Books
The
Emancipation Proclamation by Charles W. Carey
Black,
Blue & Gray: African Americans in the Civil War by James Haskins
Dear
Mr. President: Abraham Lincoln: Letters from a Slave Girl by Andrea
Davis Pinkney
The
Civil War's Common Soldier by James I. Robertson
The
Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War
by Jim Murphy
The
Massachusetts 54th: African American Soldiers of the Union by Gina
de Angelis
Teacher Resources
Teaching
With Documents Lesson Plan: The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers
in the Civil War From the U.S. National Archives & Records Administration.
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