The Great Gatsby & Segregation

Student Resources - History

Reconstruction

• PBS Reconstruction film transcripts
• Black Office Holders
• Election Maps during Reconstruction
• Timeline of African American History, 1865-1921
• New York Times article on the Equal Justice Initiative's Report on Lynching (with map) - *WARNING OF DARK IMAGES* . & Lynching Memorial

Segregation/"Jim Crow" - warning of many disturbing images in this set of links

• Why is it called "Jim Crow"?
• PBS Jim Crow Voting Laws simulation *WARNING OF DISTURBING IMAGES* (from the website companion to the film The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow)
  • to hear more about restrictions on voting rights, go to the BackStory podcast and find the November 30 edition "Short Take: A History of Rigged Elections" and begin listening at 5:20 (and listen for about 3 minutes)
• PBS Jim Crow Laws Map (on issues other than voting)
• Green Book map & guide interactive from the New York Public Library

Race in the 1920s - the Eugenics Movement & the KKK

• Eugenics Movement readings from Facing History and Ourselves book Race and Membership in American History - we read the following articles:
  • "Race Improvement"
  • "Science, Eugenics, and Propaganda"
  • "'Three Generations of Imbeciles'?"
• KKK march in DC in 1925 - see this source (see film of DC march) & this NPR story on "When the KKK was mainstream"
• Deerfield KKK Ceremonial (Sept. 1924)

The Harlem Renaissance:

• our folder of poems, the presentation of select Paintings
• the song “Strange Fruit”

The Double V Campaign during WWII - and reference to Captain America

Race Riots

• Wilmington, NC "Ghosts of 1898"
• "Murderous Washington, DC, and Chicago Race Riots" (1919) - in 2018, we watched a short film on Chicago 1919
• Tulsa, OK "Unearthing a Riot" (1921) - in 2018, we watched a short film clip from CNN
• Florida "A Town Called Rosewood" (1923)