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Up From Slavery is a powerful, compelling and haunting 7-part documentary series that examines the history of slavery in America, from the arrival of the first African slaves through Nat Turner's Rebellion to the Civil War and beyond. In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. The nation was founded...
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Scope and content: A small quantity of documents dating ca. 1939-1978 relating to the McKissack & McKissack architectural firm of Nashville, Tenn. Materials include two histories of the organization written prior to 1950; the firm's application for National Defense Construction Projects with the Federal government during World War II, including highlighting its work at the Tuskegee Army Airfield where the 99th Pursuit Squadron (Tuskegee Airmen) would...