Useful Links
A brief history of Jim Crow https://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/a-brief-history-of-jim-crow What was Jim Crow? https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/what.htm Includes resources/ lessons about Jim Crow and the Reconstruction Era https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/academics/courses/index.htm Guided Readings: African Americans after Slavery https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teacher-resources/guided-readings-african-americans-after-slavery |
Primary & Secondary Sources
Chafe, William H. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj_uOabv7L4AhWllIkEHWXzBkMQFnoECBQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRemembering-Jim-Crow-Americans-Segregated%2Fdp%2F1620970279&usg=AOvVaw3NPl9l4Fq9lz-jYOebyB4r
“A White Resident of Louisiana Remembers Jim Crow,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed June 16, 2022, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/984.
“An African American Remembers Growing Up in Segregated Louisiana,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed June 16, 2022, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/987
H. J. Williams Recalls Learning About the Rules of Jim Crow in Yazoo County, Mississippi (1910-)
https://www.facinghistory.org/mockingbird/h-j-williams-recalls-learning-about-rules-jim-crow-yazoo-county-mississippi
Frederick Douglass on Jim Crow, 1887
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/frederick-douglass-jim-crow-1887
African-American Women Recall Subtle Methods of Resisting Segregation
https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/986
THE ETHICS OF LIVING JIM CROW
An Autobiographical Sketch Richard Wright, Chicago (1937)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/White/anthology/wright.html
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj_uOabv7L4AhWllIkEHWXzBkMQFnoECBQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FRemembering-Jim-Crow-Americans-Segregated%2Fdp%2F1620970279&usg=AOvVaw3NPl9l4Fq9lz-jYOebyB4r
“A White Resident of Louisiana Remembers Jim Crow,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed June 16, 2022, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/984.
“An African American Remembers Growing Up in Segregated Louisiana,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed June 16, 2022, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/987
H. J. Williams Recalls Learning About the Rules of Jim Crow in Yazoo County, Mississippi (1910-)
https://www.facinghistory.org/mockingbird/h-j-williams-recalls-learning-about-rules-jim-crow-yazoo-county-mississippi
Frederick Douglass on Jim Crow, 1887
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/frederick-douglass-jim-crow-1887
African-American Women Recall Subtle Methods of Resisting Segregation
https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/986
THE ETHICS OF LIVING JIM CROW
An Autobiographical Sketch Richard Wright, Chicago (1937)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/White/anthology/wright.html
Lessons
Jim Crow Laws
Lesson Objectives: ● Analyze what life would be like for African Americans during the Jim Crow era. ● Understand the different stresses, sacrifices, and abuse endured by African Americans during this period. ● Interpret period photos from the late 19th-early 20th century. ● Analyze primary and secondary documents that portray American life during the late 19th-early 20th century
https://www.gcsu.edu/sites/files/page-assets/node-2213/attachments/jim_crow_educational_resource_.pdf
Jim Crow as a form of racialized social control + questions (lesson)
https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/lessons/jim-crow-as-a-form-of-racialized-social-control
Lesson Plan After Reconstruction
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/after-reconstruction/
Lesson plan 4: growing up in a segregated society, 1880s-1930s
https://chnm.gmu.edu/laurelgrove/exhibits/show/lesson4/lesson-plan/activities.html
Offers seven lesson plans about different aspects of Jim Crow
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/education_lessonplan.html
Jim Crow
Use primary documents and images to discover the ways state and local governments restricted the newly gained freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War. Compare, contrast, and analyze post-war legislation, court decisions (including Plessy v. Ferguson), and a political cartoon by Thomas Nast to understand life in Jim Crow states.
https://www.icivics.org/teachers/lesson-plans/jim-crow
Lesson Objectives: ● Analyze what life would be like for African Americans during the Jim Crow era. ● Understand the different stresses, sacrifices, and abuse endured by African Americans during this period. ● Interpret period photos from the late 19th-early 20th century. ● Analyze primary and secondary documents that portray American life during the late 19th-early 20th century
https://www.gcsu.edu/sites/files/page-assets/node-2213/attachments/jim_crow_educational_resource_.pdf
Jim Crow as a form of racialized social control + questions (lesson)
https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/lessons/jim-crow-as-a-form-of-racialized-social-control
Lesson Plan After Reconstruction
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/after-reconstruction/
Lesson plan 4: growing up in a segregated society, 1880s-1930s
https://chnm.gmu.edu/laurelgrove/exhibits/show/lesson4/lesson-plan/activities.html
Offers seven lesson plans about different aspects of Jim Crow
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/education_lessonplan.html
Jim Crow
Use primary documents and images to discover the ways state and local governments restricted the newly gained freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War. Compare, contrast, and analyze post-war legislation, court decisions (including Plessy v. Ferguson), and a political cartoon by Thomas Nast to understand life in Jim Crow states.
https://www.icivics.org/teachers/lesson-plans/jim-crow