PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: The Atlanta Compromise Speech (1895)
Find out how Booker T. Washington tried to allay the fears of white Southerners in his speech in Atlanta in September, 1895. Although hailed as a new era in which blacks would give up their civil and political rights and in return get...
PBS
Pbs: The Murder of Emmett Till: People & Events: Lynching in America
Article summarizes the impact of lynching on African Americans and the events and people related to the issue.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Goals
The full text of Booker T. Washington's plea for white support of black enterprise and W. E. B. Dubois's response are provided within this resource, in addition to a summary of their positions.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: The Quest for Social Justice in the Interwar Years
For this Curriculum Unit, students will consider "NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaigns: The Quest for Social Justice in the Interwar Years" in 2 Lessons. The unit also includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under...
Library of Congress
Loc: The Church as a Factor in Solving the Race Problem
During the worst days of segregation, the Church served as a haven for African Americans. Read two sermons by Samuel Wallace addressing the social injustices faced by African Americans in the late 1800's.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The American Negro and His Fatherland
Read excerpts from this speech given by Re.v. Henry McNeal Turner, a bishop in the AME church, who, by the late 1890s, supported the Back to Africa movement and felt that African Americans would have a better life in Africa.
Other
Ida B. Wells Memorial Foundation: Her Biography
A brief biography of Ida B. Wells who used the power of the pen to attack growing violence against African Americans in the late 19th century. She particularly focused on the use of lynching.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Intolerance
The 1920s was a time of intolerance and a return to nativism, a claim to return to American values, defined as those held by white, western European descendents. Read about the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, restriction on immigration,...
Black Past
Black Past: Afro American Council (1898 1907)
An article about the founding of the Afro-American Council in 1898 and its goals for addressing rising violence against African Americans.