AT Box-African American Experience

Bibliographic Organizer Name of Lesson: The African-American Experience Created by: TPS Staf Date: January 17, 2008 Thumbnail Image Collection Printed Document Title, Author/Creator, Date Today In History TITLE: [Sojourner Truth, three-quarter length portrait, standing, wearing spectacles, shawl, and peaked cap, right hand resting on cane] CREATED/PUBLISHED: [Detroit], [1864] REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA Library of Congress URL http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov2 6.html http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c19343 TITLE: Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bonds-woman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the present century; with a history of her labors and correspondence drawn from her "Book of life." [Gilbert, Olive] CREATED/PUBLISHED Battle Creek, Mich., For the author, 1878 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/lhbumbib:@field(NUMBER+@b and(lhbum+25244)) TITLE: TUBMAN, HARRIET Photograph by H B Lindsley [No date found on caption card Dates of LOT 5910: 1850-1900] Location: LOT 5910 [not found 1998] Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-7816 http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_pot.ht ml TITLE: ANDERSON, MARIAN Photograph by Carl Van Vechten 1940 Jan 14 Location: LOT 12735, no 48 Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-42524 http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_poa.ht ml TITLE: CARVER, GEORGE WASHINGTON Photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston 1906 Location: LOT 2962 Reproduction Number: LC-J601-302 http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_poc.ht ml TITLE: CHISHOLM, SHIRLEY Photograph [No date found on item.] Location: Congressional Portrait Collection (no 47a) Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-83472 Note: see also image in online reference aid: "Images of 20th Century African American Activists: A Select List" http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_poc.ht ml Printed Printed Printed Printed Bibliographic Organizer TITLE: DOUGLASS, FREDERICK Photograph [No date found on item.] Location: Biographical File Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-15887 http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_pod.ht ml TITLE: DU BOIS, WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT Photograph by J.E Purdy 1904 Location: Biographical File Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-28485 Note: see also image in online reference aid: "Images of 20th Century African American Activists: A Select List" TITLE: HURSTON, ZORA NEALE Photograph [Between 1935 and 1943?] Location: Biographical File Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-62394 http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_pod.h tml Images of 20th Century African American Activists http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/083_afr.htm l http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/20036 88127/ Printed Printed http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_poh.ht ml Printed Collection Printed Exhibition TITLE: Description: JESSE JACKSON, half-length, seated at table, wearing jacket and tie, gesturing with his hands Photograph by Warren K Leffler, 1983 July Location of Original: U.S News and World Report Collection: LC-U9-41583 The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exh ibit/aointro.html America " From John Thornton, The Atlas Maritimus of the Sea Atlas London, ca 1700 Geography and Map Division (1-11) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exh ibit/aopart1.html TITLE: A slave revolt aboard the brigantine Hope, March 17, 1765 Holograph transcript Peter Force Collection, Manuscript Division (1-1) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exh ibit/0101001.html TITLE: An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections Compiled by Joshua Coffin New York: The American Anti-slavery Society, 1860 Rare Book and Special Collections Division (1-19) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage? collId=ody_rbcmisc&fileName=ody/ody0 119/ody0119page.db&recNum=0 Slavery Famous People Bibliographic Organizer TITLE: Prince Cinque/ Romare Bearden Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988, artist CREATED/PUBLISHED [1971] SUMMARY Prince Cinque, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front; rebellion aboard the slave ship Amistad in foreground below REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA TITLE: Mrs Juliann Jane Tillman, preacher of the A.M.E Church / from life by A Hoffy ; printed by P.S Duval Hoffy, Alfred M., b ca 1790, artist CREATED/PUBLISHED Philada : c1844 REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA TITLE: [Willie Mays, standing, wearing baseball uniform, with arm around shoulders of Roy Campanella, seated] / World Telegram & Sun photo by William C Greene CREATED/PUBLISHED 1961 PART OF African American Odyssey http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/e xhibit/aopart1b.html#0114 [Left to right: George E.C Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James M Nabrit, congratulating each other, following Supreme Count decision declaring segregation unconstitutional] CREATED/PUBLISHED 1954 PART OF African American Odyssey http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/aaodyssey:@field(NUMBER+@ band(cph+3c11236)) TITLE: [Little Rock Nine and Daisy Bates posed in living room] Layne, Cecil, photographer CREATED/PUBLISHED [between 1957 and 1960] REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/aaodyssey:@field(NUMBER+@ band(cph+3c19154)) TITLE: "By Executive Order President Truman Wipes Out Segregation in Armed Forces." CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago Defender, July 31, 1948 REPOSITORY Library of Congress Serial and Government Publications Division Washington, D.C 20540 TITLE: Oliver W Harrington Dark Laughter "My Daddy said they didn't seem to mind servin' him on the Anzio beach head ." Published in the Pittsburgh Courier, April 2, 1960 Crayon, ink, blue pencil, and pencil on paper Prints and Photographs Division (9-28) Courtesy of Dr Helma Harrington http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/e xhibit/aopart9.html#0901-0902 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/aaodyssey:@field(NUMBER+@ band(cph+3g04543)) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/aaodyssey:@field(NUMBER+@ band(cph+3c12029)) Education Printed Print ed, large Civil Rights Printe d http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/e xhibit/aopart9.html#0928 Bibliographic Organizer TITLE: "5,000 at Meeting Outline Boycott; Bullet Clips Bus." Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott Montgomery Advertiser, December 6, 1955 Copyprint from microfilm Serial and Government Publications Division (9-3) Courtesy of the Montgomery Advertiser http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/ex hibit/aopart9.html#0903 TITLE: [Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, and Mark Martin stage sit-down strike after being refused service at a F.W Woolworth luncheon counter, Greensboro, N.C.] http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/aaodyssey:@field(NUMBER+@ band(cph+3c14749)) CREATED/PUBLISHED 1960 TITLE: Background Map: 1961 Freedom Rides [New York]: Associated Press Newsfeature, [1962] Printed map and text Geography and Map Division (9-4) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exh ibit/0904001.html TITLE: Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C SUMMARY: Photograph showing civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr., surrounded by crowds carrying signs CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1963 Aug 28 CREATOR: Leffler, Warren K., photographer REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.04297 1965 U.S News and World Report, August 16, 1965 Humanities and Social Sciences Division, General Collections (9-20) Copyright, August 16, 1965, U.S News and World Report (www.usnews.com) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/ex hibit/aopart9b.html#0917-0920 TITLE: The weary picket Brandon, Brumsic, artist CREATED/PUBLISHED c1977 SUMMARY African American boy asking sleeping man in chair, "Have we overcome yet?" REPOSITORYLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/aaodyssey:@field(NUMBER +@band(cph+3g06172)) TITLE: [Mahalia Jackson, half-length portrait, facing left, standing at podium, singing] CREATED/PUBLISHED 1957 May 17 SUMMARY Accompanying caption reads: Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson was the featured artist at the May 17 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington, D.C She appeared twice on the program Some 27,000 persons from 36 states attended the event REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/aaodyssey:@field(NUMBER+@ band(cph+3c19977)) Culture Bibliographic Organizer Exhibition Education TITLE: We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite Max Roach CREATED/PUBLISHED New York: Candid Records, 1960 REPOSITORY Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C 20540 TITLE: "We Shall Overcome." Silphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger New York: Ludlow Music, Inc., 1963 Music Division (9-19) Courtesy of Ludlow Music, Inc., 11 West 19th Street New York, NY 10011 TITLE: Birmingham, Alabama, Block Statistics Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940 Washington, 1943 Geography and Map Division (8-15) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/ex hibit/aopart9.html#0906 TITLE: True sons of freedom CREATED/PUBLISHED Chicago : Chas Gustrine, 1918 SUMMARY African American soldiers fighting German soldiers in World War I, and head-and-shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln above REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/aaodyssey:@field(NUMBER+@ band(cph+3c17094)) TITLE: Arthur Herzog, Jr., and Billie Holiday "'God Bless' the Child,' a swing-spiritual based on the authentic proverb 'God Blessed the Child That's Got His Own.'" New York: Edward B Marks Music Corporation, 1941 Sheet music Music Division (8-17) © 1941 by Edward B Marks Music Company Copyright renewed Used by permission of Carlin America, Inc 126 East 38th Street York, NY 10016 TITLE: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." Words by Langston Hughes and Margaret Bonds New York: Handy Brothers Music Company, Inc., 1942 Sheet music Music Division (8-1) Courtesy of the Handy Brothers Music Company, Ed Sullivan Theater Building, 1697 Broadway New York, NY 10019 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/ex hibit/aopart8b.html TITLE: [Wilt Chamberlain, three-quarter length portrait, wearing uniform of Harlem Globetrotters basketball team] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo Palumbo, Fred, photographer CREATED/PUBLISHED 1959 New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection The AFRICAN-AMERICAN MOSAIC http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/aaodyssey:@field(NUMBER+@ band(cph+3c15428)) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exh ibit/0919001.html http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exh ibit/0815001.html http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exh ibit/aopart8b.html http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archiv e/08/0801001r.jpg http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.ht ml Bibliographic Organizer TITLE: The Negro in Virginia, p 260 Federal Workers of the Writers' Program of Virginia, comp New York: Hastings House, 1940 General Collections (83) The Negro in Virginia is one of the most thorough studies done on American blacks by WPA writers during the 1930s and 1940s Begun under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project, the book was completed by the Virginia Project after the demise of the FWP in 1939 The book covers the whole history and contributions of blacks in Virginia, from colonial times to 1940 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam01 4.html TITLE: [Letter from Henry Bonds of Tullahassee, Oklahoma], August 25, 1919 Holograph American Colonization Society Papers Manuscript Division (28) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam00 4.html Slavery In the summer of 1919, Henry Bonds, still in the U.S and having moved to Tullahassee, Oklahoma, wrote the society once again about going to Liberia He pointed out that World War I had stopped him, but that he still wanted to go and wanted to know if the aid promised him was still good A number of letters between Bonds and the ACS exist, but they not answer the question whether or not Bonds ever reached Liberia Perhaps further research could provide the answer and more information about Bonds and his family TITLE: [Henry Y Bonds and family], ca 1912 Photomural from silver-gelatin print American Colonization Society Papers Manuscript Division (30) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam00 4.html As part of his application for ACS aid in emigrating to Liberia, Henry Bonds submitted a postcard with a photograph of his family Left to right are Catherine, eight; Bonds; Loretta, three; Bonds's wife Mary; and Floyd, six Not pictured are two unnamed older, married children, perhaps from an earlier marriage, who did not wish to emigrate Born in 1864 near Guntown, Mississippi, Bonds had come to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in April 1890 His wife Mary, thirty, born in Indian Territory near Tahlequah, was educated in the Cherokee colored high school and had taught in the Vian colored school TITLE: "President Roberts's House, Monrovia" Philadelphia: Wagner & McGuigan's, ca 1850 Lithograph Prints and Photographs Division (12) In many respects, emigrants to Liberia re-created an American society there The colonists spoke English and retained American manners, dress, and housing styles Affluent citizens constructed two-story houses composed of a stone basement and a wood-framed body with a portico on both the front and rear, a style copied from buildings in the southern American states from which most of the emigrants came Liberia's president lived in a handsome stone mansion that resembled a southern plantation house http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam00 3.html Bibliographic Organizer TITLE: [Letter from Rosabella Burke to Mary Custis Lee], February 20, 1859, in The African Repository and Colonial Journal, vol 35, no 7, July 1859, p 216 General Collections (20) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam00 4.html Letters from the Burkes to Mary Custis Lee, wife of Robert E Lee, were published in the 1859 edition of The African Repository with Mrs Lee's permission This letter from Mrs Burke to Mrs Lee demonstrates personal warmth between the two women Mrs Burke shows concern for Mrs Lee's health, tells Mrs Lee about her children, and asks about the Lee children The "little Martha" referred to was Martha Custis Lee Burke, born in Liberia and named for one of the Lee family Repeating her husband's enthusiasm for their new life, Rosabella Burke says, "I love Africa and would not exhange it for America." TITLE: "Outrage," February 2, 1837 Handbill Rare Book and Special Collections Division (41) This handbill urging opponents of abolitionists to obstruct an antislavery meeting demonstrates the depth of pro-slavery feeling Although the handbill advocates peaceful means, violence sometimes erupted between the two factions An emotion-laden handbill was a factor in the well-known Boston riot of October 21, 1835 In that incident, a mob broke into the hall where the Boston Female AntiSlavery Society was meeting, and threatened William Lloyd Garrison's life http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam00 5.html Culture TITLE: "The Emperor Jones" with Ralph Chesse's Marionettes Artist unknown Silk-screen poster Prints and Photographs Division (64) The Emperor Jones was one of several plays produced by the WPA's Federal Theatre Project in which blacks and black themes were featured The play also was one among many controversial productions of the FTP On the bottom of the poster, patrons are directed to the "white front cars" of the trolley when proceeding to the theater TITLE: Books are Weapons Read About The Negro in National Defense; Africa and the War; Negro History and Culture J.P (signed) New York, NY Silk-screen poster Prints and Photographs Division (67) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam01 2.html http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam01 2.html With the entrance of the United States into World War II in 1942, the graphics units of the Fine Arts Project of the WPA was absorbed by the Defense Department's War Services Division That Division produced hundreds of posters in support of the war effort, including this one encouraging reading about black contributions to the defense effort, among other subjects, in the Schomburg Center The Schomburg Center was established within the New York Public Library system by Arthur A Schomburg, a Puerto Rican of African descent, and it includes material by and about blacks throughout the world TITLE: [Life Membership Certificate for American Colonization Society], ca 1840 Certificate American Colonization Society Papers Manuscript Division (3) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam00 2.html Bibliographic Organizer Collection Education “With an Even Hand”: Brown v Board at Fifty http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/ TITLE: Margaret Crittenden Douglass Educational Laws of Virginia; The Personal Narrative of Mrs Margaret Douglass, a Southern Woman, Who Was Imprisoned for One Month in the Common Jail of Norfolk, under the Laws of Virginia, for the Crime of Teaching Free Colored Children to Read Page Boston: John P Jewett and Co., 1854 General Collections (1) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/ br0001p1s.jpg TITLE: School building in Louisa County, Virginia (20.4) [Digital ID# ppmsca-#05513] http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/ br0020_4s.jpg http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brownoverview.html http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brownoverview.html TITLE: Ruby Bridges, 1960 Gelatin silver print New York World-Telegram and Sun Collection, Prints and Photographs Division (148) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/images/ br0148s.jpg TITLE: Thurgood Marshall and Charles Houston with their client Donald Gaines Murray during court proceedings, ca.1935 Gelatin silver print Visual Materials from the NAACP Records, Prints and Photographs Division (28) Courtesy of the NAACP TITLE: George W McLaurin, 1948 Gelatin silver print http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/9551707 7/ Visual Materials from the NAACP Records, Prints and Photographs Division (47) Digital ID# cph 3c16927 Courtesy of the NAACP TITLE: University of Alabama Students burn desegregation literature, 1956 Gelatin silver print Prints and Photographs Division (121A) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brownoverview.html http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brownsegregation.html http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brownoverview.html http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brownsegregation.html http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brownaftermath.html 0/ TITLE: Thurgood Marshall and Arthur Shores, February 29, 1956 Gelatin silver print Visual Materials from the NAACP Records, Prints and Photograph Division (123) Courtesy of the NAACP http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brownaftermath.html TITLE: Telegram NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins to Herbert Brownell concerning the expulsion of Autherine Lucy, February 7, 1956 NAACP Records, Manuscript Division (121) Courtesy of the NAACP http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brownaftermath.html http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/9351091 3/ Bibliographic Organizer Collection TITLE: Segregation's Citadel Unbreached in Years," Washington Observer, Sunday, May 11, 1958 Enlarged version Newspaper map Geography and Map Division (140) Copyright 1958, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive and The Washington Post All Rights Reserved TITLE: Warren K Leffler, photographer Governor George Wallace attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama, 1963 Gelatin silver print U.S News & World Report Magazine Collection, Prints and Photographs Division (174A) Digital ID # ppmsca 04294 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brownaftermath.html African American History Month http://www.loc.gov/topics/africanamericans / TITLE: Waiting for courtroom seats, 1953 Gelatin silver print New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Prints and Photographs Division (74) Digital ID# cph 3c13498 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brownbrown.html U S Supreme Court Justices, 1953 Photograph New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Prints and Photographs Division (102) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brownbrown.html TITLE: [Mrs Nettie Hunt, sitting on steps of Supreme Court, holding newspaper, explaining to her daughter Nikie the meaning of the Supreme Court's decision banning school segregation] CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1954 REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c27042 TITLE: Time magazine, September 19, 1955 Cover General Collections (115) Courtesy of Time-Life Pictures, Getty Images http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown -brown.html TITLE: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma July 1939 Russell Lee, photographer "Man drinking at a water cooler in the street car terminal." [Sign: "Reserved for Colored."] http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.ht ml TITLE: Halifax, North Carolina April 1938 John Vachon, photographer "A drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn." [Sign: "Colored."] http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.ht ml http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brownaftermath.html Education Civil Rights Bibliographic Organizer TITLE: Durham, North Carolina May 1940 Jack Delano, photographer "A cafe near the tobacco market." [Signs: Separate doors for "White" and for "Colored."] TITLE: Memphis, Tennessee September 1943 Esther Bubley, photographer " People waiting for a bus at the Greyhound bus terminal." [All are variants of the same scene, variously captioned] TITLE: Durham, North Carolina May 1940 Jack Delano, photographer "At the bus station." TITLE: Negro demonstration in Washington, D.C Justice Dept Bobby Kennedy speaking to crowd SUMMARY: Photograph showing Attorney General Robert F Kennedy speaking to a crowd of African Americans and whites through a megaphone outside the Justice Department; sign for Congress of Racial Equality is prominently displayed CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1963 Jun 14 CREATOR: Leffler, Warren K., photographer REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA TITLE: D.C riot April '68 Aftermath SUMMARY: Photograph showing a soldier standing guard in a Washington, D.C., street with the ruins of buildings that were destroyed during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1968 Apr CREATOR: Leffler, Warren K., photographer REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA TITLE: Lyndon Baines Johnson signing Civil Rights Bill, April 11, 1968 CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1968 April 11 CREATOR:Leffler, Warren K., photographer REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA Slavery Sound recording 10 Item Title Interview with Alice Gaston, Gee's Bend, Alabama, 1941 Author/Creator Interviewee: Gaston, Alice http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa19 98006213/PP/ http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.ht ml http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.ht ml http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.04295 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.04301 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b41629 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc9999001.5091 b Bibliographic Organizer The African slave trade The secret purpose of the insurgents to revive it No treaty stipulations against the slave trade to be entered into with the European powers Judah P Benjamin's intercepted instruction to L Q C Lamar, styled commissioner, etc of 27 of 14 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/rbaapcbib:@field(NUMBER+@b and(rbaapc+00400)) CREATED/PUBLISHED Philadelphia, C Sherman, son & co., printers, 1863 PART OF African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) Work among the freedmen : address of Rev Samuel J Fisher before the Synod of Pennsylvania in Allegheny, Pa October 17th, 1902 Fisher, Samuel J CREATED/PUBLISHED [Allegheny, Pa.? : s.n., 1902?] PART OF African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/rbaapcbib:@field(NUMBER+@b and(rbaapc+08900)) Authentic anecdotes of American slavery / by Mrs L.M Child Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 CREATED/PUBLISHED Second edition, enlarged Newburyport [Mass.] : Published by Charles Whipple, 1838 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/rbaapcbib:@field(NUMBER+@b and(rbaapc+05000)) Statistics of the Negroes in the United States, by Henry Gannett Gannett, Henry, 1846-1914 CREATED/PUBLISHED Baltimore, The Trustees, 1894 PART OF African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/rbaapcbib:@field(NUMBER+@b and(rbaapc+10601)) African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/ sheetmusic/brown/ Kiss me honey / written by Edgar Smith ; composed by John Stromberg Stromberg, John, 1853-1902 Repository Brown University Library Box A, Providence, RI, 02912 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/rpbaasm.0959 Culture of 12 Printed large (x3) Collection Culture 18 Bibliographic Organizer Item Title A lubly gal was Dinah / written by Malcolm Watson ; composed by Edward Solomon Solomon, Edward S Repository Brown University Library Box A, Providence, RI, 02912 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/rpbaasm.0940 Item Title Ma genuine African blonde / by Geo R Wilson Wilson, George R Repository Brown University Library Box A, Providence, RI, 02912 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/rpbaasm.1096 My charcoal charmer / words by Will D Cobb ; music by Gus Edwards Edwards, Gus, 1879-1945 Repository Brown University Library Box A, Providence, RI, 02912 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/rpbaasm.0426 Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s1960s http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrho me.html [African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy and another man standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia] Created/Published [1899 or 1900] Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c14266 Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snh ome.html Culture Collection Slavery 19 Bibliographic Organizer [Bell rack on model] CREATED/PUBLISHED [between 1930 and 1940] Printed large Collection http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/mesnbib:@field(NUMBER+@od 1(cph+3c25130)) Caption: The bell rack Contraption used by an Alabama slave owner to guard a runaway slave This rack was originally topped by a bell which rang when the runaway attempted to leave the road and go through foliage or trees It was attached around the neck as shown in the picture A belt was passed through the loop at the bottom to hold the iron rod firmly fastened to the waist of the wearer In the accompanying photograph Richbourg Gailliard, assistant to the director of the Federal Museum and also a well-known young Mobile artist, poses to show the use made of the bell rack Photo by Russell, Mobile REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/stho me.html Slavery The slavery code of the District of Columbia, together with notes and judicial decisions explanatory of the same By a member of the Washington bar United States CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington, L Towers & co., printers, 1862 Collection Collection The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress Collection Maps of Liberia 1830-1870 Map of the West Coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to Cape Palmas, including the colony of Liberia / compiled chiefly from the surveys and observations of the late Rev J Ashmun ; J.H Young, sc Ashmun, J 1794-1828 (Jehudi), CREATED/PUBLISHED Philad[elphi]a [Pa.] : A Finley, 1830 REPOSITORY Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C 20540-4650 USA Sketch of the Careysburg Road, &c / made by William Douglass, Dec., 1867 Douglass, William CREATED/PUBLISHED 1867 REPOSITORY Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C 20540-4650 USA 20 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.law/llsc.002 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/d oughome.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/znhhtml/zn hhome.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/li bhtml/libhome.html http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g8882c.lm000 002 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g8884c.lm0000 06 Bibliographic Organizer Collection Collection Collection Collection Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 The Church in the Southern Black Community, 17801925 First-Person Narratives of the American South, 18601920 EMANCIPATION CREATED/PUBLISHED 1865 SUMMARY Thomas Nast's celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the end of the Civil War Nast envisions a somewhat optimistic picture of http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/ voices/ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snh ome.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/nc uhtml/csbchome.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/nc uhtml/fpnashome.html http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i? ammem/aaodyssey:@field(NUMBER+@ band(app+3a06245)):displayType=1:m856 sd=app:m856sf=3a06245 the future of free blacks in the United States The central scene shows the interior of a freedman's home with the family gathered around a "Union" wood stove The father bounces his small child on his knee while his wife and others look on On the wall near the mantel hang a picture of Abraham Lincoln and a banjo Below this scene is an oval portrait of Lincoln and above it, Thomas Crawford's statue of "Freedom." On either side of the central picture are scenes contrasting black life in the South under the Confederacy (left) with visions of the freedman's life after the war (right) At top left fugitive slaves are hunted down in a coastal swamp Below, a black man is sold, apart from his wife and children, on a public auction block At bottom a black woman is flogged and a male slave branded Above, two hags, one holding the three-headed hellhound Cerberus, preside over these scenes, and flee from the gleaming apparition of Freedom In contrast, on the right, a woman with an olive branch and scales of justice stands triumphant Here, a freedman's cottage can be seen in a peaceful landscape Below, a black mother sends her children off to "Public School." At bottom a free Negro receives his pay from a cashier Two smaller scenes flank Lincoln's portrait In one a mounted overseer flogs a black field slave (left); in the other a foreman politely greets Negro cotton-field workers REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA Virginia Washington, Ex-Slave Narrative SOURCE Works Progress Administration (WPA) Ex-Slave Narratives REPOSITORY Ohio Historical Center Archives Library Primary Source Set: Jim Crow in America 21 Teacher Guide: Jim Crow in America Primary Source Set [PDF/315k] http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/aaeo:@field(DOCID+@lit(o1393 4)) http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroom materials/primarysourcesets/civilrights/ Bibliographic Organizer Pamphlet Excerpt The Black Laws 22 TITLE: Me and Jim SUMMARY: Little nude black girl with mandolin, sitting on limb with crow CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1895 REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA Discovery Labels for Kids What does the term "Jim Crow" mean? http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b11186 "The Black Laws" by Bishop B W Arnett http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aapprot html http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a26761 Negro drinking at "Colored" water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Lee, Russell, 1903- photographer CREATED/PUBLISHED 1939 July REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910- photographer CREATED/PUBLISHED 1939 Oct.? REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 The black laws / speech of Hon B.W Arnett of Greene County, and Hon J.A Brown of Cuyahoga County, in the Ohio House of Representatives, March 10, 1886 Arnett, Benjamin William, 1838-1906 CREATED/PUBLISHED Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State Journal, 1886 SUMMARY Arnett examines the civil rights of African Americans in Ohio, Jim Crow laws and segregation, and African American education in Ohio schools, and he pleads for repeal of Ohio's segregation laws, the text of which are reproduced here Arnett, a prominent AME cleric, represented Greene County in the Ohio State legislature from 1885-87 Unloading the household goods of a family who is being moved into the camp for white flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, photographer CREATED/PUBLISHED 1937 Feb REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/kidsla bel-6.html http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a41115 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lcrbmrp.t0d06 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/murraybib:@field %28NUMBER+@band %28lcrbmrp+t0d06%29%29 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a20440 Bibliographic Organizer Awaiting registration in the camp for Negro flood refugees at Forrest City, Arkansas Locke, Edwin, photographer CREATED/PUBLISHED 1937 Feb REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a14598 Series of Farm Security Administration photographs 76 images http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/fsaall:@filreq%28+@FIELD %28SUBJ+@band%28+Floods+ +Arkansas++1937+%29%29+@field %28COLLID+fsa%29%29 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b29241 Sick flood refugee in the Red Cross temporary infirmary at Forrest City, Arkansas Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, photographer CREATED/PUBLISHED 1937 Feb REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA Printed Sound recording transcription 23 w/ TITLE: Jim Crow Jubilee SUMMARY: Sheet music cover illustration with caricatures of ragged African American musicians and dancers CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1847 REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a37712 TITLE: Jim Crow CREATED/PUBLISHED: [no date recorded on shelflist card] REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a16219 ITEM TITLE Jump Jim Crow PERFORMER(S) Reed, Henry; fiddle CREATED/PUBLISHED 1966/08/27 DURATION minute, 12 seconds LOCATION Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Virginia (Giles County) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcreed.13035 a39 Bibliographic Organizer Jim Crow Sold wholesale and retail by L Deming, at the sign of the Barber's pole Hanover St., Boston, and at Middlebury, Vt [n d.] IMPRINT Boston, Massachusetts: L Deming REPOSITORY Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/amss:@field(DOCID+@lit(as106 690)) The Crow family H De Marsan, Publisher, &c., 60 Chatham St N Y [n d.] IMPRINT New York, New York: H De Marsan Publisher: H De Marsan REPOSITORY Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/amss:@field(DOCID+@lit(as200 590)) Negroes to ride in City railway passenger cars! Morton McMichael declines to say wether he is in favor of, or against, negroes riding in the City passenger railway cars Daniel M Fox declares himself in opposition to all such privileges Rea CREATED/PUBLISHED Philadelphia, 1868 PART OF Broadsides, leaflets, and pamphlets from America and Europe http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.15902600 Civil Rights Act 1875 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage? collId=llsl&fileName=022/llsl022.db&rec Num=364 A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875 Statutes at Large, 43rd Congress, 2nd Session Volume 18, Part Rev Dr A.E.P Albert Jim Crowed on Texas Train Cleveland Gazette 12/19/1891 Ohio Historical Center Archives Library 24 http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cf m?ID=17324 Bibliographic Organizer Printed 25 TITLE: Oliver Scott's Refined Negro Minstrels a happy lot of funny coons in myriad acts entrancing, new jokes and gags by black buffoons, the best of songs and dancing SUMMARY: Includes multiple captions describing activities CREATED/PUBLISHED: Cincinnati, U.S.A : U.S Printing Co., c1898 CREATOR: U.S Printing Co REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/var.2053 "Jim Crow" Law Must Go [song] Byron Gunner 07/01/1893 http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cf m?ID=17812 "Jim Crow" Cars [from newspaper] SOURCE Cleveland Gazette 17, no 49 (07/14/1900): 01 [5 pages] REPOSITORY Ohio Historical Center Archives Library http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page1 cfm?ItemID=19335 To the colored men of voting age in the southern states CREATED/PUBLISHED Philadelphia : Press of E.A Wright , [190-?] PART OF African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/rbaapcbib:@field(NUMBER+@o d1(rbaapc+33200)) TITLE: Al G Field Greater Minstrels fun's famous fellows CREATED/PUBLISHED: Buffalo : Courier Co., c1907 CREATOR: Courier Co REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g06815 TITLE: For the sunny South An airship with a "Jim Crow" trailer SUMMARY: Caricature showing people on airplane CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1913 REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48958 Bibliographic Organizer of Famous Americans 26 Jump, Jim Crow; Maytime 1917 Romberg, Sigmund, 1887-1951 OTHER TITLES First line: It's a dance that's rather shocking Chorus: Jump, jump, oh jump, Jim Crow! CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, New York, 1917 REPOSITORY Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/ b/b07/b0775/ Arkansas Official to File Test Case on Jim-Crow Law Cleveland Advocate 12/28/1918 Ohio Historical Center Archives Library http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cf m?ID=7963 Jim Crow Law Upheld [from newspaper] SOURCE Ohio State Monitor 02, no 45 (04/24/1920): 01 REPOSITORY Ohio Historical Center Archives Library http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/aaeo:@field(DOCID+@lit(o2944 )) Bishop B W Arnett (1838-1906) http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/C IV_toolkit/overview.pdf Drafts of Langston Hughes's poem "Ballad of Booker T.," 30 May-1 June 1941 (Langston Hughes Collection) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/AMALL:@field(DOCID+@lit( mcc/024)) First African Church, Broad Street Richmond, Virginia, 1865 Copyprint Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction Number: LC-B8171-3368 (4-3 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archiv e/04/0403001r.jpg J Hoover Heroes of the Colored Race Philadelphia, 1881 Color lithograph with portraits of Blanche Kelso Bruce, Frederick Douglass, and Hiram Revels Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-10180 (5-7) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/ex hibit/aopart5b.html#0507 African Bibliographic Organizer Booker T Washington (three-quarter length portrait, seated and facing slightly left, holding newspaper) ca 1890 Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-25624 (6-2) http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/9850058 4/ Henry L Stephens [Elderly black man with spectacles reading a newspaper by candlelight] Watercolor, ca 1863 Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-2442 (5-12) http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010718 365/ James E Taylor "The Freedmen's Union Industrial School, Richmond, Va." From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 22, 1866 Copyprint Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-33264 (5-5) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/aaodyssey:@field(NUMBER+@ band(cph+3a33775)) "Sea-island School, No 1, St Helena Island Established in April 1862." Education among the Freedmen, ca 1866-70 Broadside Rare Book and Special Collections Division Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-107754 (5-2) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exh ibit/0502001.html Production Launching of the SS Booker T Washington Marian Anderson, celebrated contralto, and Mrs Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs, National Youth Administration (NYA), at the launching of the SS Booker T Washington, first Liberty Ship named for a Negro, at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's yards Palmer, Alfred T., photographer CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Sept 29 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b05209 Map of the vicinity of Richmond and part of the Peninsula / from surveys made under the direction of A H Campbell, Capt: P.E.C.S.A in charge Topographl Dept., D.N.V 1864 Campbell, Albert H 1826-1899 (Albert Henry), CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l : s.n.] , 1864 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/e xhibit/aopart4b.html#0419 Education Slavery 27 Bibliographic Organizer TITLE: $200 Reward Ranaway from the subscriber, on the night of Thursday, the 30th of Sepember, five Negro slaves SUMMARY: Reward offered by Wm Russell for apprehension of the slaves, St Louis, Oct 1847 CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1847 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b10436 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b10436 Statistical Atlas of the United States Based on the Results of the Eleventh Census Plate 11 Washington: U.S Government Printing Office, 1898 Lithograph Geography and Map Division (5-18) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/ex hibit/aopart5.html#0518 "I Am the Door." From Songs of the Jubilee Singers from Fisk University Sheet music Cincinnati: John Church & Co., 1884 Music Division (5-16) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r? ammem/aaodyssey:@field(NUMBER+@band( musmisc+ody0516)) After Reconstruction: Problems of African Americans in the South (Grades 9-12) Students identify problems and issues facing African-Americans immediately after Reconstruction using text based sources Students explore documents in order to simulate the 1898 National Afro-American Council meeting From Jim Crow to Linda Brown (Grades 9-12) Students explore the era of legalized segregation This lesson provides a foundation for a more meaningful understanding of the modern Civil Rights Movement Jackie Steals Home - (Grades 9-12) Students explore racism in the United States, both in and out of sports The lesson focuses primarily on race relations in the 1950s Rounding the Bases - (Grades 9-12) Students use primary sources focused on baseball to explore the American experience regarding race and ethnicity The unit should be used when studying the World War II era and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement To Kill a Mockingbird - (Grades 7-12) Students are guided on a journey through the Depression Era South in the 1930s This lesson helps students grasp how historical events and human forces have shaped relationships between black and white, and rich and poor cultures of our country Two Unreconciled Strivings - (Grades 11-12) Students examine the tension experienced by African-Americans during the Gilded Age The lesson explores the areas of http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/rec/rho me.html Culture Online Resources Lesson Plan Lesson Plan Lesson Plan Lesson Plan Lesson Plan Lesson Plan 28 http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/97/cro w/crowhome.html http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/robi nson/intro.html http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/00/bas e/index.html http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/mo ck/intro.html http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/two /index.html Bibliographic Organizer Lesson Plan Bibliography Collection Connections Collection Connections Collection Connections Collection Connections Collection Connections Collection Connections Collection Connections Collection Connections Collection Connections 29 family, work, play, faith, education, race, and violence Ladies, Contraband, and Spies - (Grades 10-11) Students view the perspectives of slave women, plantation mistresses, female spies, and Union women during the Civil War Much of the lesson is centered on “contraband” in the South Bibliography: Civil Rights African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920, Selections from the Ohio Historical Society, The (Summary and Teaching Resources) The AfricanAmerican Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920, contains a number of primary sources reflecting the diversity and complexity of African-American culture from the eve of the Civil War through the early twentieth century African-American Odyssey - (Summary Only) The exhibition tells the story of the African American experience through nine chronological periods, from Colonial settlement in 1492 to the post-war US in the early 1970s African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A P Murray Collection 1818-1907 - (Summary and Teaching Resources) This collection documents a wide range of events, topics, and issues in AfricanAmerican history It recreates the public dialogue among African Americans a century ago, and highlights political, cultural, and social issues still debated today From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 - (Summary and Teaching Resources) Speeches, essays, letters, and other correspondence provide different perspectives on slavery, African colonization, Reconstruction, and the education of African Americans Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress, The - (Summary Only) Included within this collection are copies of Douglass's writings, correspondence with noted abolitionists including Henry Ward Beecher, Ida B Wells, Gerrit Smith, and Horace Greeley, and scrapbooks documenting his activities Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938 - (Summary and Teaching Resources) This collection contains more than 2,300 firstperson accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration Voices From the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Story - (Summary Only) Zora Neale Hurston Plays, The - (Summary Only) By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s - (Summary and http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/01/spie s/index.html http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroom materials/themes/civil-rights/ http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroom materials/connections/afam-ohio/ http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroom materials/connections/afam-odyssey/ http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroom materials/connections/afamperspectives/ http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroom materials/connections/afamperspectives/ http://memory.loc.gov/learn/collections/do uglass/index.html http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroom materials/connections/narrativesslavery/ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collecti ons/voices/ http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroom materials/connections/zora-neale/ http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroom materials/connections/baseball- Bibliographic Organizer Special Presentation Special Presentation Special Presentation Exhibition Library of Congress Live Library of Congress Live Library of Congress Bibliography Internet Resources Special Presentation Library of Congress Live Cybercast Cybercast Cybercast Special Presentation Sound Recording 30 Teaching Resources) In 1947, Jackie Robinson signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers to become the first African-American baseball player in the major leagues African American History and Culture - Explore treasures from the Manuscript Division’s Words and Deeds Collection African American Sites in the Digital Collections Compiled by Sabrina C Thomas, Digital Reference Specialist African Americans at War: Fighting Two Battles - Read stories of African American veterans American Treasures: Civil Rights - View the multi-media Civil Rights exhibit from the Reason gallery, American Treasures of The Library of Congress Black Diamond! Satchel Page and the Negro Baseball Leagues - Use this guide to learn more about the Negro Leagues Children of Struggle - Use this Learning Guide to help students learn about the Civil Rights Movement through the stories of Ruby Bridges, Claudette Colvin and Ernest Green Civil Rights Resource Guide - This guide compiles links to civil rights resources throughout the Library of Congress Web site and beyond Ethnic and Multicultural History - These recommended links from the Learning Page include excellent AfricanAmerican and civil rights sources Faces and Voices from the Presentation - View images of former slaves as you read and hear their stories from the new collection - Voices From Days of Slavery Hidden Washington: The Alley Communities of the Nation's Capital - Use this guide to learn more about Nannie Helen Burroughs, female African American activist, and life in the alley communities in Washington after the Civil War Historians Discuss Images of Early African American Life - View the October 29, 2003 cybercast of historians David Willis and Deborah Willis discussing photographic images of African American life at the turn of the 20th century Langston Hughes and His Poetry - View a webcast of David Kresh, Library of Congress Reference Specialist in Poetry, Humanities and Social Sciences, discussing Langston Hughes and his poetry W.Ralph Eubanks Discusses Memoir - View cybercast of Eubanks discussing Ever is a Long Time - his memoir describing what it was like to grow up as an African American in Mississippi in the 1960s Zora Neale Hurston Chronology - This chronology accompanies the Zora Neale Hurston Plays collection which features ten recently discovered unpublished plays Interview with Uncle Bob Ledbetter, Oil City, highlights/ http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/afam/af am-home.html http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ex-warafam.html http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr22a html#civilrights http://www.loc.gov/loc/kidslc/LGpdfs/base ball-guide.pdf http://www.loc.gov/loc/kidslc/LGpdfs/ruby -new-guide.pdf http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroom materials/themes/civil-rights/ http://www.loc.gov/teachers/additionalr esources/relatedresources/ushist/special /ethnic.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/ voices/vfssp.html http://www.loc.gov/loc/kidslc//LGpdfs/hid wash-teacher.pdf http://www.loc.gov/locvideo/lewis_willis/ http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/journey/hug hes.html http://www.loc.gov/locvideo/eubanks/ http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/znhhtml/zn hchron.html http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc9999001.3992 Bibliographic Organizer 31 Louisiana, 1940 Interviewee: Ledbetter, Bob Interviewer: Lomax, John Avery, 1867-1948 Interviewer: Lomax, Ruby T (Ruby Terrill) Created/Published 1940 Repository Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C 20540 [Marian Anderson receives the Spingarn Medal from Eleanor Roosevelt] Silver gelatin print NAACP Collection, Prints and Photographs Division (8-12) Courtesy of the NAACP a African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 You can take your trunk and go to Harlem http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage? collId=rpbaasm&fileName=0600/0603/r pbaasm0603page.db&recNum=0 American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 [Harlem Rent Parties] - Transcription http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage? collId=wpa2&fileName=21/2101/210110 10/wpa221011010.db&recNum=0 Spunk Hurston, Zora Neale CREATED/PUBLISHED Registered for copyright June 1935 The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mhurston.010 The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress Spunk page http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage? collId=mhurston&fileName=01/0108/mhurst on0108.db&recNum=1&itemLink=r? ammem/hurstonbib:@field(NUMBER+@ba nd(mhurston+0108)) The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress Spunk page http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage? collId=mhurston&fileName=01/0108/mhurs ton0108.db&recNum=2&itemLink=r? ammem/hurstonbib:@field(NUMBER+@b and(mhurston+0108)) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/arc hive/08/0812001r.jpg Bibliographic Organizer Sound Recording 32 TITLE: [Portrait of Cab Calloway] CALL NUMBER: LOT 12735, no 186 [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-89027 (b&w film copy neg.) MEDIUM: photographic print : gelatin silver CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1933 Jan 12 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/20046 62660/ Item Title: Interview with Uncle Bob Ledbetter, Oil City, Louisiana, 1940 Author/Creator: Interviewee: Ledbetter, Bob Interviewer: Lomax, John Avery, 1867-1948 Interviewer: Lomax, Ruby T (Ruby Terrill) Created/Published 1940 Repository Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C 20540 Daytona Beach, Florida Bethune-Cookman College Before retiring each night, Dr Mary McLeod Bethune reads from the Bible Parks, Gordon, 1912- photographer CREATED/PUBLISHED 1943 Jan NOTES Title and other information from caption card Transfer; United States Office of War Information Overseas Picture Division Washington Division; 1944 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc9999001.3992 a http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8d12513 ... and it includes material by and about blacks throughout the world TITLE: [Life Membership Certificate for American Colonization Society], ca 1840 Certificate American Colonization Society Papers... the American Colonization Society, January 20th, 1880, by Hon John H B Latrobe Pub by request Latrobe, John H B 1803-1891 (John Hazlehurst Boneval), CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington City, Colonization... free state, in the United States Senate, June 4, 1860 Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 CREATED/PUBLISHED New ed., with a dedication New-York, Young Men's Republican Union, 1863 PART OF African American