Rights and Justice Fund

Focused on the stories of African Americans and people of color, as found in the records of the National Archives.

About the Fund

In 2020, the National Archives Foundation launched its Rights and Justice Fund to provide resources for research, public programs, exhibitions, and educational materials focused on the stories of African Americans and people of color, as found in the records of the National Archives.

Help us tell more of their stories by donating to the Rights and Justice Fund today.

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Featured Records

The National Archives is full of records that attempt to tell the story of race in America. At our fundraiser to launch the fund, we highlighted some of the more unique and important documents.

Records of Rights

In this permanent exhibition in the David M. Rubenstein Gallery at National Archives in Washington, D.C., Records of Rights explores how generations of Americans sought to fulfill the promise of the founding documents.

Amending America

In 2016, in celebration of the 225th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, the National Archives hosted a series of national conversations across the country to explore the continuing and often complicated issues of rights of our modern era.


On October 6, the National Archives Foundation hosted History Speaks: Race and Reform in America to launch this fund. The event was supported by the generosity of its Presenting Sponsors: 

The Boeing Company, Maris and Peter Cuneo, John and Christie Johnson, NCTA – The Internet & Television Association, and Jacqueline B. Mars

Additional sponsor support is provided by:

Governor James J. Blanchard and Janet Blanchard, DLA Piper LLP (US), Marilynn Wood Hill and John A. Hill, Mary C. Moynihan, Lucinda Robb, Deborah Ratner Salzberg and Michael Salzberg, Rodney E. Slater and Cassandra Wilkins, Tom and Carol Wheeler, Ambassador Fay Hartog-Levin, Ken Burns, David S. Ferriero, Laura D. Gates, Fruzsina M. Harsanyi, Al Kamen, Cameron F. Kerry, Maarja Krusten, William Minor and Christine Enemark, and Ross O. Swimmer