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The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1850-1950
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An overview of "anti-Black violence from the 1880s to the 1950s," including information on lynchings, race riots, and the response of the black community. A curriculum unit by Robert A. Gibson for the Yale-New Haven (Connecticut) Teachers I ...
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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/guides/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html |
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Strange Fruit
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Made famous by Billie Holiday's rendition, the song "Strange Fruit" is "a harrowing portrayal of the lynching of a black man in the American South." This site tells the story of the song, which was written by a Jewish teacher from ...
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http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/ |
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History of CORE
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Information about the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which "was founded in 1942 as the Committee of Racial Equality by an interracial group of students in Chicago." Includes information about the 1963 March on Washington, 1960 "si ...
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http://www.core-online.org/ |
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40 Years On, Murder Charges Filed
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January 2005 news article about the indictment of Edgar Ray Killen for the killing of three civil rights workers Mississippi in the summer of 1964. The murdered men had been working on a project to register blacks to vote and help run educational pro ...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56513-2005Jan7.html |
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Ida B. Wells, 1862-1931
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Background material about black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Features a brief biography discussing her civil rights and feminist activities, an overview of her anti-lynching pamphlets, the full text of one anti-lynching publication, ...
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http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/idabwells/ |
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The Murder of Emmett Till
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Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) American Experience program about the 1955 murder of a northern black teenager after he whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. "Till's death was a spark that helped mobilize the civil rights mo ...
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/ |
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Duluth Lynchings Online Resource: Historical Documents Relating to the Tragic Events of June 15, 1920
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This digital collection provides access "to a variety of primary source materials relating to the 1920 lynching of three young black men--Isaac McGhie, Elias Clayton, and Elmer Jackson--in Duluth, Minnesota." It includes background informat ...
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http://collections.mnhs.org/duluthlynchings/ |
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Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore
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Devoted to "one of the forerunners of the civil rights movement in America," who "did groundbreaking work in Florida [during the 1930s and 40s] in registering African American voters, investigating lynchings and police brutality, and f ...
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http://www.pbs.org/harrymoore/ |
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