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Records on Microfilm

  • North Carolina 1870-1930
  • South Carolina 1870-1930
  • Virginia 1810-1930
  • Census Descriptions of Geographic Subdivisions and Enumeration Districts: Virginia, 1850-1870
  • 1890 and 1900 Census Enumeration Districts Descriptions: Virginia
  • Census Records for Virginia.  Records of the 1820 Census Manufactures
  • 1910-1920 Census Enumeration District Descriptions: Virginia
  • Slaves Schedules. Seventh and Eighth Census of Virginia, 1850-1860
  • Special Schedules for the Eleventh Census, 1890. Enumerating Union veterans and widows of Union veterans of the Civil War
  • Correspondence of the Secretary of the Navy Relating to African Colonization, 1819-1844
  • Records of the American Colonization Society, Incoming Correspondence, Domestic Letters, 1823-1861
  • Records of the Assistant Commissioner of the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869
  • Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870
  • Register of Signatures of Depositions in Norfolk, Richmond and Lynchburg branches of the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company, 1865-1874
  • Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia
  • Documents Relating to the Military and Naval Service of Blacks Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor from the Civil War to the Spanish-American
  • Letters Received from Virginia by the Office of the Adjutant General, 1864-1866
  • The Negro in the Military Service of the United States, 1639-1886
  • Selected Documents Relating to Blacks Nominated for Appointments to the U.S. Military Academy During the 19th Century, 1870-1887
  • Papers of the NAACP, Part I, 1909-1950
  • Personal Correspondence of Selected NAACP Officials, Part II
  • The Voting Rights Campaign 1916-1950, Part IV
  • Campaign Against Residential Segregation, 1914-1955, Part V
  • American Beacon, 1818-1834
  • American Gazette, 1795-1796
  • Charlottesville, Virginia Chronicle and Weekly Chronicle, 1833-1917
  • Chicago Defender, 1976-1986
  • Chicago Tribune, 1865-1866
  • Cincinnati Commercial, 1865
  • Cincinnati Gazette Daily, 1865-1866
  • Hampton News, 1854
  • New York, Evening Post, 1866
  • New York, Herald, 1865-1866
  • Norfolk Dispatch, 1896-1905
  • Norfolk Journal and Guide, 1916-present
  • Norfolk Landmark, 1873-1911
  • Norfolk Virginian, 1875-1886
  • Norfolk Weekly, 1797-1798
  • Petersburg Lancet, 1882-1886
  • Pittsburgh Courier, 1911-1982
  • Portsmouth Daily Enterprise, 1876
  • Richmond Planet, 1882-1886
  • Southern Argus (Norfolk), 1848-1860
  • Washington, D.C. Constitutional Union, 1865
  • Washington, D.C. Daily Morning Chronicle, 1865
  • Washington, D.C. National Republican, 1866
  • Fannie Lou Hamers Papers 1966-1978
  • Fire Insurance Maps from the Sanborn Map Company Archives Late 19th Century to 1985: Virginia
  • Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Countee Cullen Papers, 1921-1969
  • The E. Azalia Hackley Collection Catalog
  • Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
  • The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1776
  • State Free Negro Capitation Tax Books: Charleston, South Carolina, 1811-1860
  • The Records of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1626