White House History Table of Contents
NUMBERS 1 THROUGH 6 (COLLECTION I) WHITE HOUSE HISTORY • NUMBER 1 1 — Foreword by Melvin M. Payne 5 — President Kennedy’s Rose Garden by Rachel Lambert...
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President Johnson and Civil Rights
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The Ground Floor
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Frederick Douglass
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E. Frederick Morrow at the White House
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St. John's Church
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Rodgers House and Belasco Theater
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Self-emancipation in Lafayette Park
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The Burning of the White House in 1814
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1862 Emancipation Petitions
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Daniel Webster's House
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The White House, Lafayette Square and African Americans
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