1877-1964

Examines the plight of African-Americans during the economic depression of the 1930s and over the course of World War II, and discusses how the response of the people to unfair policies and unequal practices is linked to the beginnings of the modern civil rights movement.

Describes the struggles following the Civil War to decide how to deal with the newly freed slaves, through the years of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, sharecropping, and segregation.

Describes the historical event known as the Great Migration which occurred between 1910 and 1930, when over one million African-Americans left the rural South for the cities of the North.

Focuses on the files of surveillance on African Americans by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Discusses the events of a 25-year period during which blacks emerged as a force in their attempts to gain political and cultural recognition and increased civil rights.

Examines the pioneering role of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the struggle for civil rights during the Jazz Age, and looks at the achievements of NAACP leaders James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and W.E.B. Du Bois, as well as their following of thousands of working class members across the nation.

Presents short readings from primary and other sources related to the Great Migration, when more than six million African-Americans migrated from the American South to the North, between 1910 and 1970.

Examines the events that led to the development of the American South's Jim Crow laws, which severely limited the rights of African-Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Photographs and text explore the African American struggle from 1954 to 1968, exploring the events that impacted the civil rights movement and profiling key figures from the era.

Uses narrative history and primary sources to chronicle the African American experience during and after World War II, focusing on the social, economic, and military impact of the war.