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Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia: What Was Jim Crow?

For Students 9th - 10th
A listing of the Jim Crow laws and understood Jim Crow etiquette found across the South in the late 19th century.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Roaring Twenties [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this comprehensive look at the Roaring Twenties, or Jazz Age. Read about Prohibition and its ramifications, women's gains, entertainment, and literature. Also find out about the resurgence of racial unrest and violence. A very good...
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Yale University

Gilder Lehrman Center: The Causes of the Chicago Race Riot

For Students 9th - 10th
From a contemporary article in The Crisis, Vol. XVIII, October, 1919, Walter White enumerates what he sees as the causes of the Chicago Race Riot. Very interesting to read a viewpoint written only a few months after the riot.
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Red Summer (1919)

For Students 9th - 10th
The summer of 1919 saw race riots in many cities, for the most part started by whites. Read about the causes and results of these riots.
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Black Past

Black Past: Rosewood Massacre (1923)

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of what led up to the complete destruction of the town of Rosewood, Florida, and the results of the racial unrest in the area in the 1920s.