TKAM RESEARCH RESOURCES
Harper Lee/Truman Capote Rosa Parks Emmett Till Scottsboro Boys Brown v. Board of Ed. Jim Crow/Stetson Kennedy Plessy v. Ferguson Great Depression & Dust Bowl FRD & New Deal Stock Market Crash Growing Up Black Growing Up White Civil Rights Movement History of Alabama KKK & Lynching Freedom Rides/Sit-Ins Little Rock Nine WPA
Grolier Online – Grolier is a subscription database that allows you to search 7 different encyclopedias. Go to http://go.grolier.com Use the FIND IT FAST search box to search all encyclopedias for your topic. Click HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE for MLA citations.
Issues & Controversies in American History - Contains authoritative reference content on topics relating to U.S. history. Provides MLA citations.
Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird – This well-researched site including articles and links ion Harper http://web.archive.org/web/20061018163406/mockingbird.chebucto.org/bio.html
Interviews http://web.archive.org/web/20061024004150/mockingbird.chebucto.org/interviews.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20061021040112/mockingbird.chebucto.org/
SwissEduc Author Information on Harper Lee http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/readinglist/lee_harper/about/index.html
Truman Capote Biography - http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/capote.htm
PBS Documentary on Truman Capote - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capote_t.html
SwissEduc Author Information on Truman Capote http://www.swisseduc.ch/english/readinglist/capote_truman/about/index.html
Academy of Achievement http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0pro-1
Parks Institute for Self Development http://www.rosaparks.org/
The Rosa Parks Portal http://e-portals.org/Parks/
PBS: The American Experience: The Murder of Emmet Till http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/
About.com's The Murder of Emmett Till http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/emmetttill/a/emmetttill.htm
Devery Anderson's Emmett Till Website http://www.emmetttillmurder.com/
Famous Trials – The Scottsboro Boys - http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
PBS Special - Scottosboro: An American Tragedy http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/
The Scottosboro Trials - http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_HRrep.html
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htmAfro-America's Newspaper's Black History Museum Interactive Exhibit:
The Scottsboro Boys http://www.afro.com/scott/scotts.html
PBS: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Brown vs. Board of Education - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_brown.html
PBS: Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise http://www.pbs.org/beyondbrown/
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/brown.html
The History of Jim Crow Laws – Explore the complex African-American experience of segregation from the 1870s to the 1950s. Click on American Literature for links to TKAM.http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm
The “Jim Crow” Laws – A list of some of the actual laws. http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm (updated 11/08)
PBS: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
Stetson Kennedy Official Site http://stetsonkennedy.com
Florida Memory Project Folklife Database: Search their archives for Stetson Kennedy http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/folklife/database.cfm
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Plessy Vs. Ferguson http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_plessy.html
After the Civil War: PLessy vs. Ferguson http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/post-civilwar/plessy.html
Library of Congress' American Library-Depression & WWII (1929-1945) http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/wwii
The Great Depression - American Experience Surviving the Dust Bowl http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/peopleevents/pandeAMEX05.html
Library of Congress’s American Memory Website– 160,000 photographs of America from the Great Depression to World War II from the FSA-OWL from 1935-1945. The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Over 160,000 Photographs are featured. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
I Remember…Reminiscences of the Great Depression - During the Great Depression of the 1930s, some Michiganians bartered and traded for food, clothes, shelter and services. Sharing and "making do" became a way of life. People who lived during the Depression have interesting stories to share about how they coped with hard times. The following reminiscences were published in Michigan History Magazine, January-February, 1982 (Vol. 66, No. 1). http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793-53511--,00.html
Library of Congress' American Memory Collection: Voices from the Dust Bowl-The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
PBS' The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/index.html
Then and Now Prices Compare Prices During the Great Depression to Prices Today http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-15481_19268_20778-52530--,00.html
Library of Congress' American Memory Collection: Voices from the Dust Bowl-The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
New York Times: The Crash of 1929 http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/index-1929-crash.html
PBS Timeline Events The First Measured Century http://www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/estockmktcrash.htm
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (FDR) & THE NEW DEAL
The New Deal Network http://newdeal.feri.org/ An educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s, is sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. This site is an excellent source for information and images from the 1930s. Be sure to look into the Image Library while you're there. You'll find a series of photographs taken in 1938 in Carbon Hill, Alabama.
Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs Reading Room - Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.html
FDR Biography from the White House Archives - http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html
FDR Presidential Library and Museum - http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html
GROWING UP WHITE IN THE SOUTH IN THE 1930's
Growing Up White in the South in the 1930s http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/girl.html
I Remember…Reminiscences of the Great Depression - During the Great Depression of the 1930s, some Michiganians bartered and traded for food, clothes, shelter and services. Sharing and "making do" became a way of life. People who lived during the Depression have interesting stories to share about how they coped with hard times. The following reminiscences were published in Michigan History Magazine, January-February, 1982 (Vol. 66, No. 1). http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793-53511--,00.html
Hard Times: Coping with Life During the Great Depression 1929-1942 http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/broome/httc.htm
Federal Writer's Interview Excerpts The Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s recorded more than 10,000 life stories of men and woman from a variety of occupations and ethnic groups. This site is a sampling of these interviews. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/exinterv.html
GROWING UP BLACK IN THE SOUTH IN THE 1930's
Interview: Growing Up Black in the 1930s in McCulley's Quarters, Alabama http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/mculley.html
Federal Writer's Interview Excerpts The Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s recorded more than 10,000 life stories of men and woman from a variety of occupations and ethnic groups. This site is a sampling of these interviews. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/wpaintro/exinterv.html
THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Mulnomach County Library Civil Rights Resource Guide - Links to many topics include Scottsboro Boys, Emmitt Till, Brown vs. Board of Education, Civil Rights Laws incl. Jim Crow), Little Rock Nince, Klu Klux Klan, and more. http://www.multcolib.org/homework/civilrights/
An Interactive Civil Rights Chronology - This Yale University Web site presents a civil rights timeline from 1502 through 2000. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/brown/1502.html
Multnomah County Library HW Center – Civil Rights Resource Guide. Numerous links on various issues regarding this topic and others.
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/civilrights/index.html
Historical Places of the Civil Rights Movement - http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/
Grolier Online – Logon using above information and search America the Beautiful by clicking on Alabama. You can also search all 8 encyclopedias for information on Alabama http://go.grolier.com
Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) - Current links to hundreds of other websites on Alabama history, politics, culture, and other topics. http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/netres.html
Alabama History Online: Alabama Dept. of Archives & History http://www.archives.state.al.us/aho.html
Monroville, Alabama Links http://web.archive.org/web/20061019122552/mockingbird.chebucto.org/monroe.html
FREEDOM RIDES / SIT-IN MOVEMENT
NPR's Get on the Bus: The Freedom Riders of 1961 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5149667
Freedom Rides: Recollections by David Fankhouser http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Society/freedom_rides/Freedom_Ride_DBF.htm#Intro
Civil Rights Movement 1955-65 : Sit-ins http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/sit-ins.html
About.com's Lunch Counter Sit-Ins http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/sitins/a/sitins.htm
Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Covil Rights Movement http://www.sitins.com/story.shtml
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. : The Sit-In Movement http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/autobiography/chp_14.htm
THE DESEGREGATION OF CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (LITTLE ROCK NINE)
School Integration in Little Rock http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/school-integration/lilrock/index.html
Time Magazine: The Legacy of Little Rock http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1663841,00.html
Little Rock Central High School 40th Anniversary, Sept 1997 http://centralhigh57.org/
Little Rock Central High School 40th Anniversary, Sept 2007 http://www.lrsd.org/centralhigh50th/default.cfm
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site http://www.nps.gov/chsc/historyculture/index.htm
We Shall Overcome: Historical Places of the Civil Rights Movement http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ak1.htm
Little Rock Nine: 50 Years Later: Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/23/AR2007022300628.html
HISTORY OF KU KLUX KLAN & LYNCHINGS
ADAH: Alabama Moments : The 20th Century Ku Klux Klan in Alabama http://www.alabamamoments.alabama.gov/sec46.html
Alabama Homeland Security –Terrorism Hate Groups- http://www.homelandsecurity.alabama.gov/tap/hate_groups.htm
Tolerance.org – This website includes information on hate groups and KKK. Includes many links involving these issues. http://www.tolerance.org/maps/hate/index.html
Spartacus Education site on Lynching http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlynching.htm
WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION (WPA)
The excerpt that follows is from American Life Histories, 1936-1940. In it, Myron Buxton, a WPA white-collar worker, discusses perceptions of the WPA and what it has meant to him. What is his attitude towards the WPA? How does he think the WPA has helped to improve his community? Does Mr. Buxton prefer charity over work? Why or why not? http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/newdeal/thewpa.html
SEGREGATION
MSN Encarta article on Segregation http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761580651/Segregation_in_the_United_States.html
THE AMERICAN SOUTH (Society & Culture)
The New Deal Network -an excellent source for information and images from the 1930s. Be sure to look into the Image Library while you're there. You'll find a series of photographs taken in 1938 in Carbon Hill, Alabama. http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm
http://www.slc.k12.ut.us/webweavers/jillc/mbird.html
Library of Congress' American Memory Collection: America from the Great Depression to World War II-Photographs from the Farm Security Admin (FSA)- Office of War Info. (OWI), 1935-1945 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
America In the 1930s - Created by the American Studies from at the Univ. of Virginia http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html