The Jim Crow Era

References:
Books & Media

Brinkley, Alan. American History a Survey Volume I: To 1877. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2003.
This book provides a wonderful description of the time period that encompasses the Jim Crow Era. It provides summaries, illustrations and maps, a time line of event, as well as featured sections where opposing ideas are presented.

Oates, Stephen B. and Errico, Charles J. Portrait of America Volume One: To 1877 and Volume Two: From 1865. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.
These books provide a great background of information for the Reconstruction period prior to the Jim Crow Era.
Volume One:

  • Chapter 29 1865: “Beautiful, Cruel Year of Transition in the Black Struggle” by Vincent Harding
  • Chapter 30 “The Checkered History of the Great Fourteenth Amendment” by Eric Foner
Volume Two:
  • Chapter 11 “African Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights” by Sean Dennis Cashman

 
Websites

http://historymatters.gmu.edu
Useful way to navigate and locate several useful websites regarding the Jim Crow Era.

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/
features/remembering/index.html
Remembering Jim Crow
Provides personal accounts of the Jim Crow Era as well as pertinent documents and primary sources.

http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/menu.htm
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
Provides a great deal of information and possible primary resources.

http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/
history/history.htm
The history of Jim Crow
This site offers several essays which help understanding and teaching the subject.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories.html
The Rise and fall of Jim Crow
This site offers narratives, photographs, and rare documents that can be examined and interpreted by the students.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/
exhibit/aopart6.html
African American Odyssey – The Booker T. Washington Era
This is a great overview of the period address in this lesson, plus it provides great access to some good primary sources.

http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/
The Booker T. Washington Papers
Great resource for primary documents.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
shows/race/etc/road.html
Booker T and W.E.B

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/
96feb/dubois.html
W.E.B. Dubois

http://www.biography.com/search/
printable.jsp?aid=9524663
Washington, Booker T.

http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/barn-ida.htm
Ida B. Wells Barnett
These are great resources for getting to know about these key leaders.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/
episodes/seven/theexodust.htm
The West The geography of Hope
This site explores the plight of the “Exodusters” and Pap Singleton, who urged the former slaves to go west rather than stay in the South. This is great for a comparative lesson on the mind set of those that left and those that stayed.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/
african/afamoo9.html
African American Mosaic
Another site that explores western migration of former slaves. Excellent resource for primary sources.