Location, Parking & Amenities

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Location Parking & Amenities Web Page … Hours The exhibits are open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Last admissions are 30 minutes prior to closing. We are open every day except Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Getting Here Metro : Take Metrorail’s Yellow or Green lines to the Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter Station. The stop is across Pennsylvania Avenue from the National Archives Building. You will need to walk around the building and enter on the Constitution Avenue side of the building.   Bus : …

Courting Confrontation: The Arrest of Susan B. Anthony

Past Exhibit
Courting Confrontation The Arrest of Susan B Anthony Past Exhibit … On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women attempted to vote in Rochester, New York, challenging section one of the 14th Amendment, which states, “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” Allowed by election officials to successfully register and cast their ballots in the 1872 election, they were later arrested and charged for “knowingly, …

Running for Office: Candidates, Campaigns, & the Cartoons of Clifford Berryman

Online Exhibit
Running for Office Candidates Campaigns & the Cartoons of Clifford Berryman Online Exhibit … They Won't Agree on Anything!" Cartoon, Clifford K. Berryman, September 24, 1922. National Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate View in the National Archives Catalog They Won't Agree on Anything!" Cartoon, Clifford K. Berryman, September 24, 1922. National Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate View in the National Archives Catalog Political cartoons are unlike any other form of political commentary. Visual in …

Sylvia Mendez and the Struggle for Mexican American Civil Rights

Past Exhibit
Sylvia Mendez and the Struggle for Mexican American Civil Rights Current Exhibit … What inspired me is that my parents fought for me when I was very young. . . . They wanted me to know that I was an individual . . . that we're all individuals, that we're all human beings and that we're all connected together and that we all have the same rights; the same freedom. –Sylvia Mendez, February 16, 2011 Sylvia Mendez. Photograph by Richard Rivera, October 12, 2011. Image courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of …