Annotated Bibliography
Bergeron, Paul H. Andrew Johnson's Civil War and Reconstruction. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2011. Specific details about Andrew Johnson's origins and political career.
Dailey, Jane Elizabeth. The age of Jim Crow: a Norton casebook in history. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. This book's introduction gave a great synopsis of the issues in the Reconstruction era including Jim Crow laws. The expression "forty acres and a mule" and land distribution denied to black freedmen. Jim Crow laws referred to as "our southern way of life."
Downs, Jim. Sick from freedom: African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Print. The newest information as to the health issues of African Americans post emancipation.
Foner, Eric. "America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War." Digital History. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/introduction.html (accessed July 30, 2012). General overview, with primary documents, of the reconstruction period. Great source for teaching using the primary documents.
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Detailed information on the entire Reconstruction era, the politics and new black voter.
Gates, Henry Louis. "War and Its Meaning 1859-1865." In Life upon these shores: looking at African American history, 1513-2008. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 144. The date, establishment and functions of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Gautier, Marguerite. "Manners & Customs in the Antebellum Period | eHow.com." eHow | How to Videos, Articles & More - Discover the expert in you. | eHow.com. http://www.ehow.com/info_8339866_manners-customs-antebellum-period.html (accessed July 26, 2012). Information on the customs and values of Antebellum South.
Holloway, Jonathan, "African American History: From Emancipation to the Present." Spring 2010, Lectures 1-4. Yale Open Courses: http://oyc.yale.edu/courses (accessed July 16, 2012.) Reconstruction issues, concerns, African American rights, African American narratives, art, poetry and film.
Holloway, Jonathan, "Narratives of Citizenship and Race since Emancipation." Yale National Teacher Institutes, July 2012. African American narratives.
"Jim Crow Laws." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws. Information on the Jim Crow customs. State statutes considered to be Jim Crow laws.
Marable, Manning, and Leith Mullings. Let nobody turn us around: voices of resistance, reform, and renewal: an African American anthology. 2nd ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. Senate, "Apologizing to the Victims of Lynching and the Descendants of Those Victims for the Failure of the Senate to Enact Anti-Lynching Legislation" (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005.) A fabulous group of narratives of important people in the African American struggle for equal rights.
La Migra. http://www.urbandictionary.com/la migra. Definition and clarification of the Spanish phrase la migra.
"Musarium: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America." Musarium: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. http://withoutsanctuary.org/ (accessed July 30, 2012). Pictures and narratives of African American lynching.
Parks, Gordon. "Gordon Parks' Alternative Civil Rights Photographs - NYTimes.com." New York Times Photojournalism - Photography, Video and Visual Journalism Archives - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/a-different-approach-to-civil-rights-images/?smid=fb-share (accessed July 31, 2012). Outstanding pictures of African American people living during the Jim Crow era. These pictures are appropriate for showing to the middle grades (4-6 th).
"Thirteenth Amendment." National Archives. www.archives.gov/historical-docs/document.html?doc=9&title.raw=13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (accessed July 12, 2012). Specifics on the Thirteenth Amendment.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/freedmens. Statistic on African American freedmen.
Woodward, C. Vann. The strange career of Jim Crow. 3d rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Additional information on Jim Crow laws.
Wormser, Richard. "The Promise of Freedom, 1865-1877." In The rise and fall of Jim Crow. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. This is the book that corresponds with the PBS special of the same name. It has many pictures that will be helpful in teaching this lesson and others on the same topic.
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