Reconstruction

How do groups of people get and hold onto power?
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 Online Resources:

PBS offers resources about the rise and fall of the Jim Crow era here.

The Library of Congress created a site with information about African Americans' experiences during the Reconstruction period here.
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These resources offer information about Jim Crow laws:

Xavier and the rest of Ms. Taylor's group found a great guide to the Jim Crow laws. Thanks for sharing! 

• www.statutes-of-limitations.com/news/read/a-guide-to-jim-crow-laws


• The National Park Service has a sampling of the various laws that passed organized by state:
• https://www.nps.gov/malu/learn/education/jim_crow_laws.htm

The Smithsonian also offers a sampling of the types of laws that were passed during the Jim Crow era:

• http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/jim-crow.html

These resources offer information about Black Codes:

• http://www.american-historama.org/1866-1881-reconstruction-era/black-codes.htm

These resources offer information about sharecropping:

• ​http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sharecropping
• http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/sharecropping/

These resources offer information about African-Americans moving West during and after Reconstruction:

• **Video #1 for PARCC task -  Pap Singleton and African American "Exodusters" 
• **Video #2 for PARCC task - Isaiah Montgomery and Mound Bayou
• More on Benjamin "Pap" Singleton:  http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/singleton.htm
• Photo of "Exodusters" waiting for a boat to carry them Westward: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/seven/w67i_levee.htm
• http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/seven/theexodust.htm
• http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4807