"America's Unfinished Revolution:" Searching for Democracy and Equality through Reconstruction and the Great Migration
Spring 2006
Sessions 2 and 3
Internet Resources
The History of Jim Crow
An extensive teacher resources section features lesson plans, simulations, narratives, an image gallery, encyclopedia entries, many essays suitable for students in the upper elementary grades through high school, and lesson plans on relevant literature.
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
This great site from PBS features interesting “then and now” activities, lesson plans on topics ranging from "The African American Press During the Jim Crow Era" (grades 6-8) to "Understanding Lynching During the Era of Jim Crow" (grades 9-12), and extensive web links on a variety of subjects. The “Events” button in the main menu provides easy access to brief essays and a few primary sources about scores of events, episodes, and phenomena, including the Wilmington Riot of 1898 and the Atlanta Riot of 1906, the Birth of the Blues, the Harlem Renaissance, etc.
Remembering Jim Crow
The web version of the radio documentary that was created as a companion to the excellent book Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South. The site contains excerpts of interviews, brief slide shows, examples of Jim Crow laws, a bibliography, a few good links—you can even listen to the original radio documentary.
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
Take a virtual tour of this real museum. The site features images of a selection of the museum’s artifacts (which can be viewed in 360-degree panorama!), lots of pictures of ephemera depicting a variety of racist African-American stereotypes, and links to some fascinating articles and websites about the dynamics of racism.
For the Record: Representations of the Wilmington Massacre of 1898
This site is under construction, but it does post some photographs, primary sources, and a bibliography about the event.
A Google search on the Wilmington Riot and other race riots of the era (for example, Atlanta, 1906; East St. Louis, 1917; Chicago, 1919; Tulsa, 1921) will bring up sites providing information about these events.
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