SEGREGATION & MIGRATION
TERROR LYNCHINGS
SLAVERY TO CIVIL RIGHTS
SLAVERY TO CIVIL RIGHTS
Terror Lynchings in America is part of the Equal Justice Initiative's Racial Justice project, which explores racial history and uses innovative teaching tools to deepen our understanding of the legacy of racial injustice.
SLAVERY TO CIVIL RIGHTS
SLAVERY TO CIVIL RIGHTS
SLAVERY TO CIVIL RIGHTS
America's journey from the era of chattel enslavement to the Civil Rights Movement is presented as a time-line of resources on this website from the Library of Congress. The site includes primary source materials, documents, stories, biographies, and Teacher Resources.
SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME
SLAVERY TO CIVIL RIGHTS
SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME
Slavery by Another Name challenges the belief that slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. The documentary recounts how following the Civil War, new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME
Booker T. Washington was born a slave. After the Civil War, Washington became the first principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School. Later as an adviser, author and orator, he became the most influential African American of his era.
IDA B. WELLS BARNETT
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
IDA B. WELLS BARNETT
Anti-lynching crusader, woman's rights activist, passionate crusader against racism, journalist and teacher, for more than 40 years, Ida B. Wells was one of the most articulate, fearless and respected women in the United States.
W.E.B. DUBOIS
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
IDA B. WELLS BARNETT
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) is widely recognized as a significant figure: for his pursuit of social justice, for his literary imagination, and for his pioneering scholarly research. He is read with profit today in the academic fields of sociology, literature, and history.
MARCUS GARVEY
IN MOTION: GREAT MIGRATION
IN MOTION: GREAT MIGRATION
The Marcus Garvey page from Biography.com tells the life story of this controversial leader, using material from the Garvey movement-written documents, film and photographs.
IN MOTION: GREAT MIGRATION
IN MOTION: GREAT MIGRATION
IN MOTION: GREAT MIGRATION
The IN MOTION: GREAT MIGRATION webpage explores multiple dimensions of the Great Migration of African-Americans from the rural South to Northern cities. The Great Migration stands as the largest internal movement of people in the history of the United States.
1900 NEGRO EXHIBITION
IN MOTION: GREAT MIGRATION
1900 NEGRO EXHIBITION
The Exhibit of American Negroes was a sociological display within the Palace of Social Economy at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. The goal of the exhibition was to demonstrate progress and commemorate the lives of African Americans at the turn of the century.
HARLEM: 1900 - 1940
HARLEM: 1900 - 1940
1900 NEGRO EXHIBITION
This digital exhibition from the Schomburg Center on Black Culture surveys some of the main personalities and events that shaped this Manhattan neighborhood in the early days when it became known as "Capital of the Negro World."
THE TULSA RACE RIOT
HARLEM: 1900 - 1940
THE TULSA RACE RIOT
In the early 1900s, Greenwood was home to a thriving, independent “Black Wall Street” until the violence of the Tulsa Race Riots changed the community’s legacy forever.
WITHOUT SANCTUARY
HARLEM: 1900 - 1940
THE TULSA RACE RIOT
Searching through America's past for the last 25 years, collector James Allen uncovered an extraordinary visual legacy: photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America.
WARNING: Graphic Images of corpses