From the Serial Set: Citizenship and Suffrage for Native Americans
Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
This post outlines the history of Native American citizenship and voting rights.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Native Americans
Archive: September 2020 (3 Posts)
From the Serial Set: Residency, Race, and Suffrage
Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
Congress has dealt with issues of voter disenfranchisement on the basis of race throughout history. The question of suffrage for District of Columbia residents in 1844 demonstrated how the enfranchisement of D.C. residents and Black American men was interconnected. In that year, the Senate Committee for the District of Columbia, which held jurisdiction over D.C. from 1816 until …
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From the Serial Set: The History of the Minimum Wage
Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
The following is a guest post by Elina Lee, a library technician (metadata) in the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. In honor of Labor Day, we decided to explore the early history of the federal minimum wage as shown through the United States Congressional Serial Set. According to Serial Set Vol. No. 6857 …
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