Jim Crow Primary Sources
Historical documents. What clues can you gather about the time, place, players, and culture?
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View these staggering lynching statistics, listed by state and race and covering the years spanning from 1882 to 1968.
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A sermon delivered by Dr. Howard E. Jones, a white reverend, to his white congregation following the lynching murder of Ed Johnson, a Black man accused of rape.
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Full text of Thomas Dixon's novel The Clansman, along with illustrations, and a biography of the author.
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The full text of W. E. B. Du Bois' civil rights manifesto, The Souls of Black Folk.
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The full text of Booker T. Washington's autobiography, Up from Slavery.
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This is an essay written by Ida B. Wells-Barnett in 1900.
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Here's an essay written by Ida B. Wells-Barnett in 1895.
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This page includes a series of essays by Charles W. Chesnutt, a prominent Black author and activist.
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Bishop Henry McNeal Turner's statement in protest of the Supreme Court ruling in The Civil Rights Cases of 1883.
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Letter from Mrs. J. H. Adams, Macon, Georgia to the Bethlehem Baptist Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1918.
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Letter from Cleveland Galliard of Mobile, Alabama to the Bethlehem Baptist Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1917.