"America's Unfinished Revolution:" Searching for Democracy and Equality through Reconstruction and the Great Migration
Spring 2006
Session 1
Internet Resources
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
An excellent multilayered website that has sections about various migrations in African-American history, with an international dimension. Each section contains topical subsections that have brief introductory texts, maps, embedded primary sources. Lots of razzle-dazzle. Created by the illustrious Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module 11, Reconstruction
This highly acclaimed organization maintains an excellent all-around website specifically oriented to teachers. All of the learning modules provide guided readings, primary documents, learning tools and lesson plans, visual aids, timelines, and additional resources (including more websites). Module 11 is the place to begin for a comprehensive introduction to Reconstruction. Module 17 on the 1920s has good summary essays about the Great Migration and the Ku Klux Klan.
Freedom: A History of US
This site complements the PBS television series of the same name. Based on Joy Hakim’s award-winning U.S. history textbook series, the site explores the theme of freedom chronologically from the American Revolution to the Civil Rights movement and concluding with the inauguration of George W. Bush. Designed to help teachers find lesson plans or design their own curriculum, the site includes sample activities, historical primers, and Internet links, each based on one of the 16 “webisodes.” Webisode 7, “What is Freedom?” focuses on Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
Like other websites that are part of the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, these two African American Odyssey sites offer a wealth of information and resources:
Reconstruction and its Aftermath
The Booker T. Washington Era
Another, Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
The Gullah: Rice, Slavery, and the Sierra Leone-American Connection
This site hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, offers a thorough introduction to the Gullah people of the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. The author, anthropologist Joseph Opala, is a foremost scholar of the Gullah
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