This collection of primary sources reflects the many and diverse activities in which the men and women of the Institute for Colored Youth participated.
Account of 1861 Graduation Ceremony
Account of 1862 Graduation Ceremony
1862 Final Examination Questions
Account of 1863 Graduation Ceremony
1863 Final Examination Questions
1864 Final Examination Questions
Octavius Catto Letter to Jacob C. White, Jr.
Jacob C. White, Jr. Letter of Recommendation
Alfred Cope Letter to Octavius Catto
Octavius V. Catto, "Our Alma Mater"
Jacob C. White, Jr. "Address to Governor Pollock"
John Henry Smythe, "On Negro Delinquent Children of Virginia"
"Men of Colored, To Arms! Now or Never!"
Jesse Ewing Glasgow, Jr., The Harper's Ferry Insurrection
Institute for Colored Youth By-Laws and Rules
Jacob C. White, Jr. "What Rum is Doing to the Colored People"
Jacob C. White, Jr. "The Inconsistency of Colored People Using Slave Produce"
Ladies Union Association 1863 Annual Report
Banneker Institute Resolutions on the Death of Jesse Ewing Glasgow, Jr.
Remarks on the Death of Jesse Ewing Glasgow, Jr.
Resolutions on the Death of Jesse Glasgow
"Base Ball - Olympic vs. Pythian"