Additional Resources for History Is Central Workshop, October 28, 2006

Additional resources for History Is Central workshop, October 28, 2006:

Books and articles:

James Grossman, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration (University of Chicago Press, 1989)

Carol Marks, Farewell – We’re Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration (Indiana University Press, 1989)

Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (Oxford University Press, 1994)

David Chalmers, Hooded Americanism (Duke University Press, 1987)

Kathleen Blee, Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s (University of California Press, 1991)

Lance Hill, The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement (University of North Carolina Press, 2004)

Suzanne Lebsock, A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial (W.W. Norton, 2003)

Jacob Lawrence, The Great Migration: An American Story, Paintings by Jacob Lawrence

(Harper Collins, 1993)

Stacey Close, "Fire in the Bones: Hartford's NAACP, Civil Rights, and Militancy, 1943-1969," Journal of Negro History vol. 86, no. 3 (Summer 2001): 228-263

Stacey Close, "The Ties That Bind: Southwest Georgians, Black College Students, and Migration to Hartford," Journal of South Georgia History 15 (2000): 19-53

Black Women of Connecticut: Achievements Against the Odds, The Connecticut Historical Society, 1984

Melvin Lurie & Elton Rayack, “Racial Differences in Migration and Job Search: A Case Study,” The Southern Economic Journal 33 (July 1966): 81-95

Frank A. Stone, African American Connecticut: African Origins, New England Roots (Issac N. Thut World Education Center, 1991

Connecticut and the KKK, a booklet of resource materials prepared by the Connecticut Education Association, 1981

1930 Hartford Negro Business Directory at the Connecticut State Library, Special Collections

Edward Price Bell, Creed of the Klansmen, interviews with Dr. H.W. Evans, et al, (Chicago Daily News, 1924)

Elizabeth M. Howe, A Ku Klux Uniform (reprinted from Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society publication, vol. XXV, 1921)

Online resources

The Sweet Trials: 1925 and 1926, part of the Famous American Trials website. Excerpts from the trial transcripts, an observer’s trial account, Darrow’s summations, maps, key figures, and a bibliography.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/sweet/sweet.html

Photos of the Ossian Sweet home:

http://detroit1701.org/SweetHome.htm

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/detroit/d4.htm

http://www.michmarkers.com/pages/S0461.htm

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/hal_mhc_shpo_Markers_Ossian_Sweet_House_162427_7.pdf

“In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience.” Schomburg Center’s website on 13 different waves of migration in African-American history, from the slave trade to African immigration today. Includes a narrative on each period, with selections from documents, scholarly articles, maps, and images; there are also lesson plans and an Internet gateway for each migration.

http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm

“The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow” PBS website with good background and resources on segregation, riots, lynching, and struggles for change, Includes information on individuals, organizations, interactive maps, timelines, and documents.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/index.html

Charles Johnson, The Negro Population of Hartford, Connecticut (National Urban League, 1921) available online at the Hartford Studies Project, Trinity College:

http://www.trincoll.edu/UG/UE/HSP/Collection_PD.htm

CT History on the Web unit: “A World Apart: Connecticut’s African Americans, 1914-1970” includes documents on migration, a 1923 study of blacks in Waterbury, and materials related to civil rights issues from the 1940s through the 1970s:

http://www.connhistory.org/

“Ties That Bind: African-Americans in Waterbury, CT 1920-1940”: http://www.mattatuckmuseum.org/ties/one/one.htm

“Connecticut in the Jazz Age: Photographs by William G. Dudley”

http://www.chs.org/graphcoll/dudleyphot.htm

Digital History eXplorations: Lynching

Includes background material and primary sources related to the anti-lynching movements and legislation in the early 20th century, 1920s, and 1930s

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/lynching/lynching_menu.cfm

James Allen, ed., Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (Twin Palms Publishers, 2000)

See also website: www.withoutsanctuary.org

Lesson plan on lynching and race riots, 1880-1950, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute:

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html#f

For documents on the early years of the NAACP, anti-lynching campaigns, and restrictive housing covenants, see the Library of Congress’ “African-American Odyssey” online exhibit: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart6b.html#0610 and

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart7.html

NAACP History: includes 1914 account by founder Mary White Ovington

http://www.naacp.org/about/history/

“Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South”: a project at Duke University to help correct historical misrepresentations of African American experiences during the period of Jim Crow

http://cds.aas.duke.edu/btv/index.html

See also the book, Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South, ed. William Chafe

“Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South”

A radio documentary project produced by American RadioWorks; includes audio clips of interviews with southern blacks and whites

http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembering/

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords: PBS documentary site about African-American newspapers, which flourished during the Great Migration.

http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/index.html

“The Fight of the Century” from PBS website accompanying Ken Burns’ film “Unforgivable Blackness,” about the 1910 Jack Johnson/Jim Jeffries boxing match, which precipitated a spate of race riots when African-American Johnson won the world heavyweight championship.

http://www.pbs.org/unforgivableblackness/fight/#

Related resources for teachers: http://www.pbs.org/unforgivableblackness/teachers/

“Beyond the Playing Field: Jackie Robinson” National Archives Teaching with Documents lesson plan:

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/jackie-robinson/

Carl Van Vechten photographs, including artists/performers of the Harlem Renaissance:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/vanvechten/vvoccindx.html

Videos:

“African-Americans in Connecticut” (2 parts) – CPTV, available through CCSU library

“Tobacco Valley” – CPTV, , available through CCSU library

“Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice” (PBS American Experience, 1989)

Work of the outspoken journalist, reformer, anti-lynching crusader.

[See also the book, Patricia Schechter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform]

“Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power” (PBS Independent Lens)

Story of a southern black community’s efforts to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and violence condoned by local authorities.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/negroeswithguns/

See also Tim Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams & the Roots of Black Power (University of NC Press, 2001)

“Unforgivable Blackness” (PBS American Experience): Boxer Jack Johnson’s quest to break the color line in the early 20th century. Available through CCSU library.

Museums

For more information on the tobacco industry in Connecticut:

Luddy/Taylor Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum

Northwest Park

135 Lang Road

Windsor, CT 06095

(860) 285 – 1888

http://www.tobaccohistsoc.org

Windsor Historical Society

96 Palisado Avenue

Windsor, CT 06095

(860) 688 – 3813

http://www.windsorhistoricalsociety.org

View the on-line exhibition Barn Again: Shade Tobacco A Diminishing Landscape.

Also within the Research Library the manuscript collections include the Huntington Brothers Records, a collection that contains farm business records that illustrate the evolution of tobacco growing practices in the Connecticut River Valley

While there are numerous web sites for Jacob Lawrence and his series The Migration of the Negro, the following were particularly useful:

http://www.moma.org/collection/

http://www.phillipscollection.org/html/programs.html

The “Art of the City” Teaching Kit and Professional Development section includes downloadable materials on Jacob Lawrence and his migration series.

http://www.whitney.org/jacoblawrence

An extensive oral history interview with Jacob Lawrence was conducted on October 26, 1968. The full transcript is available at:

http://www.archivesofamericanart.si.edu/collections/oralhistories

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

600 Main Street

Hartford, CT 06103

Among their many exhibitions and public programs, they offer in-service training programs for modest fees, on the following topics:

Learning To Look

African American Art

Art and Writing

American Art

For more information visit their web site, http://wadsworthatheneum.org or

call (860) 278-2670