Click2History - Jim Crow Laws - Chapter 5

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>"JIM CROW" LAWS</p> <p><font size=4>CHAPTER 5 - THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION</p></bold> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">One of the greatest legal documents in America's history, Lincoln's original Proclamation did not survive. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of Chicago (1871). What we have are Robert Todd Lincoln's <a href="javascript:Start('http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almss/ep001.jpg')" ;><b>photographs</b></a> of the famous document his father wrote. </p> <p align="justify">Each <a href="javascript:Start('http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almss/ep002.jpg')" ;><b>page</b></a> of the Proclamation echoes Lincoln's <a href="javascript:Start('http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almss/ep003.jpg')" ;><b>desire</b></a> for America to be forever rid of what he called this "peculiar institution." As Lincoln <a href="javascript:Start('http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almss/ep004.jpg')" ;><b>signed</b></a> his name, his intent was for slaves to endure no further oppression. Would the future had happened that way!</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="crow_laws_ch4.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="crow_laws_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER  </a>   <a href="crow_laws_ch6.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>