Rescuing, Preserving, Documenting and Exhibiting the
Courage of African Americans over the Past Four Centuries.

The Mark E. Mitchell Collection of African American History spans four centuries, consisting of well over
5,000 individual pieces -- defying description both in scope and content. Here is one of the highlights...

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"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?"
Frederick Douglass - one of the few existing originals of his
passionate "Fifth of July Oration" in Rochester, New York

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