Includes the following previously published BACM Research/PaperlessArchives.com collections

Nelson Mandela FBI & State Department Files - 344 pages of FBI files containing both FBI and State Department documents, covering the former ANC leader and president of South Africa (1994–1999), Nelson Mandela.

Martin Luther King Jr. Lost Assassination Files and MLK Assassination Police Reports - This set's 1,450 pages of files include some previously lost files. The lost files are the James Earl Ray public defender files, a collection of correspondences to and from James Earl Ray, and a set of photos dealing with the custody of Ray. The others documents include a Scotland Yard report, audio excerpts from the Memphis Police Department radio dispatch at the time of the assassination and the Memphis Police Department homicide report.

Coretta Scott King FBI Files - 492 pages - Coretta Scott King was born on April 27, 1927 and died on January 30, 2006. She was a writer, civil rights leader, women's movement activist and a mother of four.  She is best remembered as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. After Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, Coretta Scott King continued to advocate for a diverse number of causes until her death in February 2007.

Black Panther Party Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Files - 173 pages. In 1956 the state of Mississippi created the State Sovereignty Commission. The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission monitored the activities of people who challenged segregation. The commission's stated original objective was to "[...] protect the sovereignty of the state of Mississippi, and her sister states" from "federal encroachment." Initially it was formed to coordinate activities to portray the state and segregation in a more positive light. As the state's public relations campaign failed to dampen rising civil rights activism, the commission put people to work as a de facto intelligence organization trying to identify those citizens in Mississippi who might be working for civil rights, be allied with communists, or just tipped state surveillance if their associations, activities, and travels did not seem to conform to segregationist norms.

Jesse Jackson Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Files – 52 pages.

Bull Connor FBI Files - 177 pages. Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor was born on July 11, 1897 in Selma, Alabama. In the 1960's he was the Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Alabama. In this position he countered civil rights protest actions with fire hoses, police dogs, and even a small tank against protest marchers. His aggressive tactics lead to him becoming a symbol of hard-line Southern racism. Connor's efforts backfired when the spectacle of the brutality being broadcast on national television served as one of the catalysts for major social and legal change in the South and helped in large measure to assure the passage by the United States Congress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Michael Jackson FBI Files - 333 pages

World War II: Port Chicago Explosion Judge Advocate General (JAG) Investigation Findings Report - 64 pages

Civil War: Harpers Ferry - John Brown Raid Congressional Report - Report of the Select committee of the Senate appointed to inquire into the late invasion and seizure of the public property at Harpers Ferry (1860) - 333 pages.

Barack Obama Department of Defense Correspondences - Correspondences between Senator Barack Obama and the Department of Defense, dating from March 3, 2005 to February 8, 2008. 125 pages.

African-American Slavery: California Fugitive Slave Case: Stovall v. Archy - Legal papers from the only known Federal Fugitive Slave case tried in California. - 43 pages.

African-American Slavery:  District of Columbia Slave Codes - Slavery in the United States was governed by an extensive body of law developed from the 1640s to the 1860s. Every slave state had its own slave code and body of court decisions. All slave codes made slavery a permanent condition, inherited through the mother, and defined slaves as property, usually in the same terms as those applied to real estate. Slaves, being property, could not own property or be a party to a contract. Since marriage is a form of contract, no slave marriage had any legal standing. All codes also had sections regulating free blacks, who were still subject to controls on their movements and employment and were often required to leave the state after emancipation. When the District of Columbia was established in 1800, the laws of Maryland, including its slave laws, remained in force. Additional laws on slavery and free blacks were then made by the District. By Southern standards its slave codes were moderate. Slaves were permitted to hire out their services and to live apart from their masters. Free blacks were permitted to live in the city and to operate private schools. By 1860 the District of Columbia was home to 11,131 free blacks and 3,185 slaves. 159 pages.

African-American Slavery New England - Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society Annual Reports - Annual Reports: 1833, 1834, 1836-1853 - The New England Anti-Slavery Society was formed by William Lloyd Grrison, the editor of the Liberator, in 1831. In 1835 the group reorganized as the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. 1,828 pages.

Slave Ship Arthur 1677 Journal - A journal kept by the ship's factor George Hingston describing the voyage of the Arthur commanded by Robert Doegood, from London to New Calabar River (Nigeria) to purchase Africans and then to Barbados where the Africans were sold. 51 pages

Slave Ship Journal: Voyages of the Slavers St. John and Arms of Amsterdam - An 1867 publishing of the translations of the journals of the slave ships the St. John and Arms of Amsterdam. 300 pages.