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This definition and history of the word "Negro" allows for historians to really understand how people in different time periods referred to things. How we referred to things today is not the same as to how they talked about them in the seventeen…

An essay written against dueling by an anonymous author. Written for and published in the Virginia Religious Magazine in Lexington, VA, under the patronage of the Synod of Virginia.

Short statement published in a Loudoun newspaper on the Waterford community's intention to found an organization to "ameliorate the conditions of blacks" in the county

A propaganda poster used during World War 2 that states the following, "...We Here Highly Resolve That These Dead Shall Not Have Died in Vain... / Remember Dec. 7th!", referencing the events of the Pearl Harbor attack.

This is a Supreme Court statement of the case, Richard Perry Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia. This landmark case effectively struck down all laws banning interracial marriage as they were found in violation of the fourteenth amendment.

A Washington Post and Times Herald article from Jan. 10, 1957 detailing Clarence J. Robinson's appointment as president of First and Citizens National Bank.

Here is the chronology and history of the terminology 'white negro.' This chronology adds into the complicated nature of early American classification of "races."

This opinion piece criticizes public interest in the otherwise private dispute between Mason and McCarty. The anonymous author lambasts the public for encouraging the two men to duel, noting that such action would destroy Mason's reputation, even end…

A Richmond Times Dispatch newspaper article from August 4, 1936, which details the physical transformation of two white actors, Robert Barrat and Bruce Cabot, into their roles of Native American characters for an upcoming movie. The newspaper goes on…