Tulsa Race Riot, A Report by the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921,
Official report on the 1921 Tulsa Riot
Visualizing the Great Migration - The Most Under-Reported Story of the 20th Century - Metrocosm
This site provides a quick graphic that shows African-American Migration from the south into cities in the 20th century. It's a "must-include" for US History teachers explaining the race-riots of the 1920s and 1960s and/or the Civil Rights Movement
ARTSEDGE: Drop Me Off in Harlem
What happens when great minds congregate in the same time and place? How do creative individuals both reflect and influence the places and time periods in which they live? Drop Me Off in Harlem explores these questions in the context of the vibrant, complex, and unique moment in time that was the Harlem Renaissance.
Lesson 2: NAACP's Anti-Lynching Campaign in the 1930s | EDSITEment
In this lesson students will participate in a role-play activity that has them become members of a newspaper or magazine editorial board preparing a retrospective report about the NAACP's anti-lynching campaign of the 1930s. As the students analyze and synthesize a variety of primary sources, they will gain a better understanding of the reasons for the failure of anti-lynching campaign of the 1930s, the limits of liberal reform during the New Deal, and the NAACP's decision to shift its focus to a legal campaign to end segregation.
Elaine Massacre - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Although we are eager to teach about the Little Rock Nine of 1957, the 1919 massacre of hundreds of African Americans in Elaine, Arkansas puts the Civil Rights movement in context. If teachers invest any energy in finding more about it and the debt peonage system of labor that prevailed in much of the south for decades after the Civil War, they'll think differently about teaching that the 13th Amendment itself ended slavery. It is also interesting how events like this don't make into the curricula canon of the "Roaring Twenties"
A Long-Lost Manuscript Contains a Searing Eyewitness Account of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Dubois-Stoddard Debate 1929
This is a transcript of a debate between Lothrop Stoddard, a white supremacist and W.E.B. Du Bois. Teachers and students can look to this to see the combination of eugenics and unabashed racism in the Stoddard's language . See more about the background of the debate here http://tinyurl.com/ybqqx6ee
Oklahoma Will Require Schools to Teach 1921 Tulsa Massacre
Great example of how history changes over time. For decades students went through their entire K-12 Social Studies classes in Oklahoma never hearing about the 1921 Massacre - now all of them will. The state of Oklahoma just answered the question - what do American have to understand about their past to make sense of their present?
The Crisis - July 1922
The Crisis was the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois and others and provides an insight into issues confronted by African Americans in the early 1920s. Teachers can have students just look through the magazine and share what they see, or search for more information on the advertisements. For example, the Bordentown School is advertised in this issue. Look also for Du Bois's comments about Abraham Lincoln in this issue
Virginia Health Bulletin: The New Virginia Law To Preserve Racial Integrity, March 1924 · Document Bank of Virginia
Telling students of the existence of this law is important, having them read excerpts of it tells much more about the thinking of some Americans in the 1920s
Racial Integrity Laws (1924–1930) - Encyclopedia Virginia
Detailed article replete with primary source documents
1920 Census - Color or Race, Nativity, or Parentage
This 87 page report on racial classifications published by the US Census provides considerable support for the conception of race as a social construct. Anyone having difficulty proving this to someone can show them the way in which the US Census discussed the way in which the count of people as "Negro" (in the language of the time) or "white" depended, to some extent, on the census worker - whether they were white or not