Living Our History
Resources for Black History Month and Beyond
from the Tangled Roots Project*
http://www.yale.edu/glc/tangledroots/index.htm
Source Documents: All documents listed are available on the web site.
From the Present:
Interviews:
African- Americans
Stephanie Bryant- descendant of Harriet Tubman, Massachusetts
Jim McGowan- researcher, singer and athlete, Pennsylvania
Warren Harper- father of Michael Harper, poet, California
Harry Payne- descendant of slaves, New Jersey
Larri Mazon- Center for Multicultural Relations, Fairfield University
Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, Chaplain, Yale University
Rev. Hopeton Scott, Connecticut
Irish Americans
Peggy Corcoran- Irish immigrant, Connecticut
Mary Walsh- Irish immigrant, New York
DeLaSalle Christian Brothers- children of Irish immigrants, New York
Maps:
Present geographic location of African Americans and Irish Americans
Authors:
Influence of American Civil Rights Movement in Ireland.1998.
Brian Dooley
From the Past:
Anti Slavery Movement in Ireland
Speeches:
Frederick Douglass
An address Delivered in Cork,Ireland, 1845.
Letters:
Slavery and Ireland
Daniel O'Connell.
Letter to James Haughton, (February 4, 1845).
Letter to Richard Barrett (March 23, 1843).
Frederick, Douglass.
Letter to William Lloyd Garrison (January 1, 1846)
Letter to William Lloyd Garrison (September 29, 1845)
Legal Documents:
Jim Crow Laws
"Jim Crow Laws," The Code of Alabama, v.1. 1923. Atlanta.
"An act to prohibit the co-education of the white and colored races..." Laws of
Tennessee, 1901, Ch. 7, House Bill No. 7, p. 9.
Penal laws
A History of the Penal Laws against the Irish Catholics
Master Samuel Symonds against Irish slaves, 1661
From the menu of Tangled Roots web site, other useful information:
Making Connections: Acceptance (http://www.yale.edu/glc/tangledroots/tr12.htm)
Introduction to some individuals who influenced American history:
Barrier Breakers: Early Individual Achievers
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry.
The Fighting 69th (The Irish Brigade).
The Tuskegee Airmen. Edward William Brooke
Blanche Kelso Bruce Frederick Douglass
F. Scott Fitzgerald James Mercer Langston Hughes
Michael Joseph "King" Kelly Joe Louis (Barrow)
Joseph R. McCarthy George Meany
Daniel O'Connell A Philip Randolph
Alfred Emanuel Smith John L. Sullivan
Nineteenth Century Images: Perceptions about Irish and African Americans.
Cartoons
Am I Not a Man and a Brother? Bog Trotters. Poor House from Galway. The American River Ganges. The Day We Celebrate. The Ignorant Vote—Honors are Easy. The Only Cure. The Results of Abolitionism. They Have Ears But They Hear Not.
*Tangled Roots, a project that examines the shared history of African Americans and Irish Americans, grows from the mission of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Abolition, Resistance and Slavery at Yale University to investigate and disseminate information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction. The objective of the project is to foster an understanding of the tangled roots of the shared history. The project is dedicated to an understanding of race and ethnicity in America.