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Before Rhode Island: Early Peoples and Archaeology
Narragansett History
Roger Williams and the Founding of Rhode Island
Rhode Island, Slavery, and the Slave Trade
On the Burning of His Majesty’s Schooner Gaspee in 1772
Rhode Island in the American Revolution
The Underground Railroad in Rhode Island
Rhode Island and the Civil War
Rhode Island and the Industrial Revolution
Jewish History in Rhode Island
Immigration to Rhode Island
The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in Rhode Island
African American Civil Rights in Rhode Island
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“As demonstration ends, civil rights marchers at the State House in Providence join hands and sing.” Journal – Bulletin photo by Lawrence B. Millar [March 25, 1965]. Rhode Island Historical Society Collections, RHiX17391
African American Civil Rights in Rhode Island
African American Civil Rights in Rhode Island
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Newspaper Advertisement for “runaway slave”
Payments for the Removal of Non-Citizens
Harry Fearson and Black Baseball
Photograph of Lippitt Hill Redevelopment Project
Film Still of Student Clash Outside of Central High
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