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Jim Crow Gateway
Anti-Lynching Web sites
Web site Evaluators
Robert W. Dakin - Claremont Middle School, New Hampshire
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Barbara Slater Stern - James Madison University, Virginia
Lisa Swan - Sussex Technical High School, Delaware
Jean West - RJ Longstreet Elementary, Florida
Michael Koren - Maple Dale School, Wisconsin
Randy Sanford - Hueneme High School, California
Janet Strickland - State University of West Georgia
Web site Reviewer and Compiler
Tori Austin - Education Service Center, Texas
Barbara Slater Stern - James Madison University
Site Ratings
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2 = Fair |
3 = Good |
4 = Excellent |
American Memory: African-American Odyssey: Anti Lynching
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart6b.html
This page is part of the Library of Congress "American Memory Web site," overall an excellent site for teachers and students of United States history. This particular site enables the user to "click" on the documents to enlarge and read the original text. Content is broken into short, specific sections including the Crusade Against Lynching, Ida Wells-Barnett's role, NAACP and more. In addition, there is commentary on the sides of the documents that explains about the document, the organization, and/or the incident under discussion. The material is most appropriate for high school students although I believe middle school students could use the materials with assistance (reading level is the concern). The site is attractive, and there is a range of documents from differing sources allowing students access to multiple points of view.
Overall Rating: 4
Anti-Lynching Efforts: The Reflector
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vcdh/afam/reflector/historicalb.html
This unique site, an anti-lynching site, is completely text based. It is part of the University of Virginia's digital archive collection and, more specifically, the site content is from and is linked to pages of the Charlottesville Reflector, a weekly newspaper for the middle class "Negro"community published between 1933-1935. Obviously, the bias is that the site represents only the point of view of the African-American community at that time. The strength of the site and its links are the partly those of its bias: it tells the teacher/students what topics were of concern to African Americans in Charlottesville during the first part of the 1930s. Its weaknesses are that where there are links, e.g. to the Scottsboro boys, in the text, all you get is another page of the Reflector, not a full discussion of who the Scottsboro boys were and the full description of the incident. I think the articles are easy enough for 8-12 graders to read and the site does provide a minority point of view that is often hard to locate.
Overall Rating: 3
History of Movement
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/aswpl/doc10.htm
This site contains information regarding the origin of the Association
for Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. The site
contains one of ten documents available focusing on the role
of women and the anti-lynching campaign. "The strength of this
document is that it is student-friendly and condenses statistical
information and the theories of the Associations founders."
Teachers should utilize all of the information in the "How did
Black and White Southern Women Campaign to End Lynching, 1890-1942?"
section.
Overall Rating: 3
NAACP Anti-Lynching Campaign and Anti-Lynching Investigative Papers, 1912-1955
http://www.temple.edu/CAAHC/new_page_16.htm
Developed by the Center for African-American History and Culture, the site focuses on the NAACP Anti-lynching Campaign and provides access to the Anti-lynching Investigative Papers, 1912-1955. The site links users to primary sources documents that "bring to light the horrors of lynchings" in the first half of the 20th century. The site "provides good sources of content and information" that can be incorporated into lessons or units. "Potential problems" with the site include "offensive language and violent accounts of lynchings."
Overall Rating: 3
Crossing Boundaries
http://www.ukans.edu/kansas/crossingboundaries
The "erosion of rights of black Americans" after Reconstruction and the lynching of blacks are the focuses of this site. The efforts of Ida B. Wells and her "anti-lynching crusade" are detailed under the left navigation link, "people". Content of the site ranges from her efforts to bring the problem to the forefront to her struggles "against the backlash of her efforts." There are numerous links to sites for further research. "The link to MLK, Jr. should be explored" as it "offers an online photo gallery of the Civil Rights Movement."
Overall Rating: 2
Office of Anti-Lynching Bureau--Letter
http://www.uga.edu/~iaas/Wells.TXT
This Web site provides the text of a 1902 letter from Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Chairman of the Anti-Lynching Bureau. The first part of the letter provides a picture into the lynching problem. The second part explains that because of the number of lynchings, even it is no longer news. The final part is an encouragement to pay a 25 cent annual feel to the Bureau in order to help keep the atrocities--and hopefully therefore the public outcry against them--in people's faces. While this letter is very interesting, it has no links to provide background or any explanations. It is full text, no graphics, no commentary or explanations. No links. If the teacher or student wanted a letter for a worksheet or reading assignment, it could be easily downloaded. It needs to be explained by the teacher as the students are not given context by the document. Students need a high school reading level.
Overall Rating: 2
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-1940
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/aswpl/doclist.htm
This site provides music clips, photographs, and primary documents
centered on the anti-lynching campaign of Black and White Southern
women between 1890-1942. "The information found in this Web site
is unique because the documents are so obscure that it would
be hard to find them elsewhere." The site "examines the impact
of women's religious, temperance, and suffrage organizations
in eliminating lynching." A Teacher's Corner containing links
to facilitate the development of lesson plans is provided. A
caution is issued to the teacher regarding the language of the
documents. "Due to the graphic violence of lynching described
in the documents, the site is recommended for use by teachers
and college level students."
Overall Rating: 3
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