Internet Resources

Jim Crow

• The History of Jim Crow ~ "An educator's site that presents teachers with new historical resources and teaching ideas on one of the most shameful periods in American history." The material includes essays, personal narratives, lesson plans, photographs and historical images, and maps and geographical perspectives on segregation in the United States from the 1870s through the 1950s. "Content was generated by a national collaboration of classroom teachers, working with professional historians."
• The Murder of Emmett Till ~ Click on Segregation. 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. The site features a timeline, information about people and events (such as lynching in the United States), and related material.
• Remembering Jim Crow ~ Scroll down for excerpts from interviews, sample Jim Crow laws, a bibliography, and links to related sites. This site is the companion to an American RadioWorks documentary about Jim Crow segregation in which "for much of the 20th Century, African Americans in the South were barred from the voting booth, sent to the back of the bus, and walled off from many of the rights they deserved as American citizens."
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow ~ Click a Century of Segregation for an interactive timeline. Click Jim Crow Stories to see, hear and read video, images and primary documents. Also includes interactive maps. The online companion to the PBS documentary about the government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States.

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Scottsboro Boys/Trial

• Scottsboro: An American Tragedy ~ "Online companion to the acclaimed PBS documentary (of the same title) about the controversial 1931 Scottsboro, Alabama, court trial of nine young black men. Features a timeline of the event and subsequent trials (including Supreme Court decisions), a map, information on related people and events, documents and reactions taken from the time of the incident, a bibliography, links, and a teacher's guide. Also contains a transcript of the film and an interview with the film's cinematographer."
• The Scottsboro Boys Trials ~ Extensive information, primary documents, and images surrounding the famous trials. Douglas O. Linder, University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Law.
• Scottsboro Boys ~ Click on Trials, Players, and Interviews for information, primary sources, maps, and images. A documentary from CourtTV.
• Setting the Historical Context ~ Information about the Scottsboro Trials and the Civil Rights Era presented by the Chicago Public Library when To Kill a Mockingbird was the One Book One Chicago reading selection of 2001.