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The Charlotta Bass Papers

The Charlotta Bass Papers from the Southern California Library are the latest addition to the Black Women's Suffrage Digital Collection. The collection contains speeches, newspaper clippings, election documents, and other artifacts from Bass's political career as well as her historic run for the vice presidency in 1952.

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Activism in the US

This Land Is Your Land: Parks and Public Spaces

History of Survivance: Upper Midwest 19th-Century Native American Narratives

America's Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

Ida B. Wells and Anti-Lynching Activism

The Poetry of Maya Angelou

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Searching for Black women in the archives: Part 4
February 25, 2021
This is the fourth and final post in a series from DPLA’s Audrey Altman about the curatorial and technological challenges involved in the development of the Black Women’s Suffrage Digital…
Searching for Black women in the archives: Part 3
February 18, 2021
This is the third in a series of posts from DPLA’s Audrey Altman about the curatorial and technological challenges involved in the development of the Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection.…
DPLA now offering ebook creation service
February 11, 2021
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is pleased to announce that we are now offering an ebook creation service to libraries. This new service, provided in partnership with Digital…