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17th Century	18th Century	19th Century	20th Century

Year	Author & Title of Document	Source on the Internet
1900	Theodore Roosevelt The Strenuous Life	US Historical Documents Archives (USHDA) > Nonfiction http://www.bartleby.com/58/1.html
1905	The Niagara Movement's Declaration of Principles	http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1152.htm
1920s	Remembering Slavery	Smithsonian Institution http://rememberingslavery.org/
1930's	New Deal Document Library	http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/index.htm
1939-1945	African American Odyssey - World War II	http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/ exhibit/aopart8.html
1945-1953	The Truman Administration & the Desegregation of the Armed Forces	Truman Presidential Museum & Library http://www.trumanlibrary.org/deseg.htm
1954	Brown vs Board of Education Supreme Court decision	http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/enlight/brown.htm from Defining Freedom in the Supreme Court (PBS online)
1956	Speech by Branch Rickey for the "One Hundred Percent Wrong Club" banquet, Atlanta, Georgia,	http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/branch.html
1961	Eisenhower's Farewell Address	Modern History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/ 1961eisenhower-farewell.html
1962	Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society	http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/ Resources/Primary /Manifestos/SDS_Port_Huron.html from the Sixties Project
1963	Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream"	History and Politics Out Loud http://www.hpol.org/transcript.asp?id=72
1964	Fanny Lou Hamer's speech to the Democratic National Convention	http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/programs/ pauleyg/voices/fhamer.htm from the Voices of Freedom site, a web archive of unknown speeches from the Civil Rights movement, hosted by Calvin College
1964	The Tonkin Gulf Incident - President Johnson's Message to Congress	http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/tonkin-g.htm
2002	The National Security Strategy of the United States of America	http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/secstrat.htm
2002	Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution	http://www.kpid.dk/Iraq%20Resolution%20of%202002.htm