The African-American Experience in Ohio,
1850-1920
Related
Resources
From the Ohio Historical
Society
- George A. Myers Papers: Finding
Aid
- One of the manuscript collections digitized as part of The
African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 comprises the papers
of George A. Myers, a African-American businessman who played an active
role in Republican Party politics at the turn of the century. The Ohio
Historical Society prepared a finding aid to this collection:
The George A. Myers Papers,
1890-1929. Originally an inventory for the microfilm edition of the
papers, the online version provides direct links to the digital
reproductions of individual letters and documents. The collection is
arranged chronologically.
The George A. Myers papers consist primarily of
correspondence, approximately 4,000 items in
all.
The major portion of the correspondence is incoming. There are also pencil
and typewritten copies of a portion of Myers's outgoing personal
correspondence. The political correspondence portrays Myers's activity at
the national, state and local levels. Myers served on the Ohio Republican
Central Executive Committee from 1897 to 1903 and was particularly
concerned with promoting a strong black Republican vote, a fair share of
party patronage and representation in policy matters affecting the black
vote. The personal correspondence contains the opinions and viewpoints of
many black middle-class men as they confronted life in the United States
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Research Tools at
the Ohio Historical Society Archives/Library
- The Ohio Historical Society provides online access to many other
resources relating to the history of Ohio, including the full text of Fundamental
Documents relating to the state of Ohio. These include
the ordinance establishing the Territory of the United
States northwest of the river Ohio (1787), the first constitution of the
State of Ohio (1802), documents about the War of 1812, and biographies of
state governors.
In American
Memory
Other Collections Illustrating the
African-American Experience
-
African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray
Collection, 1818-1907
-
Daniel A. P. Murray (1852-1925) was an employee of the Library of Congress
from 1871 to 1923. Volumes he collected for the Exhibit of Negro Authors
at the 1900 Paris Exposition formed the nucleus of the Library's
Collection of Books by Colored Authors.
In 1926 the Library received a bequest of books and pamphlets that
Murray had privately assembled, including the 386 pamphlets in this
online collection. Daniel Murray and individual authors
represented in African American Perspectives, including Booker
T. Washington, Robert Terrell, and Benjamin Arnett, corresponded with
George Myers,
whose papers form part of The African-American Experience in Ohio.
-
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
- This online presentation of a Library of Congress exhibition
showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections, which
include a wide array of important and
rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores,
plays, films, and recordings.
- African-American Sheet
Music, 1850-1920
- This collection of sheet
music dating from 1850 through 1920 reflects the African-American
experience of that period. The collection includes many songs
from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from
the abolitionist movement of the same period. An illustrated presentation
describes The
Development
of an African-American Musical Theatre 1865-1910.
Collections of Narratives Describing
Life in America during the Same Period
- First-Person
Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
- This compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documents the culture of
the nineteenth-century American South from the viewpoint of Southerners.
It includes the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs,
travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of not only prominent
individuals, but also of relatively inaccessible populations:
women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.
-
American Life Histories:
Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
- Based on interviews by staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal
Writers' Project, this collection includes almost 3,000 drafts and
revisions. The histories describe the family education, income,
occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and
miscellaneous observations of interviewees from twenty-four states.
Included in The African-American Experience in Ohio are
twenty-seven narratives from another project within the Federal Writers'
Project. The second project gathered narratives from ex-slaves, with an
emphasis on representing the speech patterns of the interviewees. Over
2,000 ex-slave narratives from the Library of Congress collections,
accompanied by
500 photographs of interviewees, will be made available online in the
future.
-
"California as I Saw It:" First-Person
Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
- Full texts and
illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's
history through eyewitness accounts covering the decades between the Gold
Rush and the turn of the twentieth century.
-
Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books
from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910
- A portrait of
Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early
twentieth century through first-person accounts,
biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and
antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and other
works drawn from the Library of Congress's collections.
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