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Jim Crow Gateway
African-American History Web sites
Web site Evaluators
Robert W. Dakin - Claremont Middle School, New Hampshire
Deborah Futch - Winter Haven High School, Florida
Melissa J. Marks - Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Cathy Richarde - Holland Hall School, Oklahoma
Frank Sanchez - Florence M Gaudineer Middle School, New Jersey
Barbara Slater Stern - James Madison University, Virginia
Lisa Swan - Sussex Technical High School, Delaware
Jean West - RJ Longstreet Elementary, Florida
Hallie Williamson - Acaciawood School, California
Web site Reviewer and Compiler
Tori Austin - Education Service Center, Texas
Barbara Slater Stern - James Madison University, Virginia
Site Ratings
| 1 = Poor |
2 = Fair |
3 = Good |
4 = Excellent |
The African American Experience in Ohio (1850-1920)
http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/
This Web site presents a digital collection of documents that
depict life for African Americans in Ohio between 1850 and 1920.
The "strength is its collection of African American published
newspapers, pamphlets, serials, and photographs." The documents
contained in the database provide "good material for class debate."
The site is easily navigated and includes links to additional
resource pages that provide strategies "to successfully make
use of primary sources in the classroom."
Overall Rating: 3
The African American Great Migration
http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu
This site looks at African American communities and the impact
of the north-south migration. The site covers "well-known aspects
of segregation, but also the rarely explored effects of segregation
on fashion, medicine, and death." A caution is given to controversial
aspects of the information presented such as "its willingness
to acknowledge divisions within the African-American community
based on income, skin color, and earlier migration." There are
also some "dead links" on the site. The format of the information
and the "technical nature" of the language lead the site to
be more of use for teachers rather than students.
Overall
Rating: 3
African American Perspectives
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
Pamphlets, sermons, biographies, speeches, and digital images
from the Library of Congress collection, which depict the African
American experience and perspective, are available on this site.
The "most attractive feature of the site is the Progress of
a People presentation, which provides background information,
photographs, and excerpts form selected reading with associated
audio recordings." There are three timeline choices for navigating
the site along with suggestions for including primary source
documents into lesson plans. This site is most suited for use
by teachers rather than students.
Overall Rating: 3
Learner.org
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog26/feature/index_text.html
The Annenberg Foundation maintains this site as a companion to their social studies video series. Regardless of "access to the expensive videos and supplemental text" teachers and students will find the webography and interactive timeline engaging and each provides a "wealth of information." The site, with a separate category for African Americans in its timeline, is valuable for teachers "as they plan their lessons" and middle and high school students will find "engaging" web links which are "age appropriate." The major drawback of the site is that content which is reinforced is "tied to a video series that students might not see."
Overall Rating: 2
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