The First Vote
This illustration from Harper's Weekly features three figures symbolizing black political leadership: a skilled craftsman, a sophisticated city dweller, and a Union Army veteran.
This illustration from Harper's Weekly features three figures symbolizing black political leadership: a skilled craftsman, a sophisticated city dweller, and a Union Army veteran.
An Ex-Slave Protests Eviction from "the Promised Land"
Zion School for Colored Children, Charleston, South Carolina
Marriage of a Colored soldier at Vicksburg by Chaplain Warren of the Freedmen's Bureau
"Radical members of the first legislature after the war, South Carolina"