African American History and Culture Websites
- Moody Family History (My Family History)The family escaped to Canada on the Underground Railroad.
- Primary Documents in American History. 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution.This amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States.
- Primary Documents in American History. 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.This amendment granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
- Primary Documents in American History. 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.This amendment granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
