Reconstruction
How do groups of people get and hold onto power?
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.
These resources offer information about Jim Crow laws:
These resources offer information about Black Codes:
These resources offer information about sharecropping:
These resources offer information about African-Americans moving West during and after Reconstruction:
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.
These resources offer information about Jim Crow laws:
- https://www.nps.gov/malu/learn/education/jim_crow_laws.htm
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/jim-crow.html
These resources offer information about Black Codes:
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