On Racism, Incarceration, and the Jim Crow Era

Books:

• “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, by Michelle Alexander, 2010
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson. 2015
• The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, 2022
• Who Freed the Slaves: The Fight Over the Thirteenth Amendment by Leonard L. Richards, 2015, University of Chicago Press.
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. 2007.
  
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. 2004.
• How it Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston. 1928.
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. 1937.

Videos and Films:

• I Am Not Your Negro, Documentary, 2016, USA. Directed Raoul Peck. 1 hr 35 min. 
  
• 13th, Documentary, 2016, USA. Directed by Ava DuVernay. Netflix. 1 hr 40 min.
• Always in Season, Documentary, 2019, USA. Directed and produced by  Jacqueline Olive. 1 hr 29 min.
• Five Survivors Reflect on the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing 59 Years Later, WBRC.com, Birmingham, AL, Sept. 15, 2022
• 1964 NBC News Special Report: Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.  58 min. 
• Mississippi Burning, Film, 1989, USA. Directed by Alan Parker. 2 hrs 6 min.
• Klansville USA – The Rise of the KKK, Documentary, 2015, Edited by Chad Ervin. Daily Motion Documentary Library, PBS American Experience Films 54 min.
• The 13th Amendment: 150 Years Later, President Obama Reflects on the Abolition of Slavery, by Tanya Somanader, 2015. The White House: President Barack Obama

Articles:

• Rewriting the Story of Civil Rights, by Carroll Bogart, The Marshall Project, 4.30.2018.
• Birmingham Church Bombing, History.com editors, Jan. 25, 2021
• Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University
• Freedom Summer, by Arlisha Norwood, National Women’s History Museum Fellow
• This Week in history: Bodies of 3 Freedom Summer Workers Found in Mississippi, by Alison Martin, Chicago Sun Times, August 5, 2022
• 13 Amendment to the Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865), The National Archives.

Visit:

• The Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery Alabama
• The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.
• Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI

On the Negro Baseball League 

Video and Film:

• 42, 2013 Biographical sports film on the baseball player, Jackie Robinson. Directed by Brian Helgeland. USA. PG-13. Available on Apple TV and Amazon Video. 2 hrs 8 min.
• How the Negro National League Was Formed – Field of Dreams… Deferred, Part 1 of “Field of Dreams Deferred” by TBS Television Network. 2020, Bleacher Report. 6 min.

Visit:

• The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown NY
• The Negro League’s Baseball Museum, Kansas City, MO

For Learning with Children

• Teaching Black History Beyond Slavery and Black History Month, Glen Mourning, 2019, PBS Teachers Lounge. 
• The Boundlessness of Black Joy: Reshaping the Narrative, Will Tolliver, Jr., 2022, PBS Teachers Lounge.
• The History of Baseball and Civil Rights in America, with timeline. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
• The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
• What was “Freedom Summer”?, PBS Learning Media. American Experience, © 2014 WGBH Educational Foundation.
• The Klu Klux Klan, National Geographic Resource Library

On the Tenements in Chicago

• What Was Public Housing? By Catherine Fennell, 2018, Public Books.
• Demolished: The End of Chicago’s Public Housing, photo essay by David Eads and Helga Salinas with photos by Patricia Evans. NPR, 2014

Further Reading & Resources

• The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah Jones, New York Times Magazine, begun in 2019, ongoing.
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson