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\nPbs: God in America: The Black Church\n

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\nA good look at the role of the church and religion in the history of African Americans. Find out the church's importance in the abolition movement and the civil rights movement.\n
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\nLoc: African Immigration: Africans in America: Life in a Slave Society\n

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\nAn excellent overview of the African American experience in America beginning with West Africa during the slave trade, through emancipation and reconstruction, to \"New beginnings.\"\n
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\nNara: Teaching With Documents: Photographs of the 369th Infantry\n

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\nBackground information on the African American troops in the 369th Infantry accompanied by teaching activities that allows students to analyze photographs and use the information in many curricular connections.\n
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\nUniversity of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Eslarp: Race Riot at East St. Louis, 1917\n

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\nThis chapter from a book about East St. Louis relates the horror of the East St. Louis Massacre where maurading whites fired on African Americans and torched their homes. Read about the aftermath of the massacre and what happened to...\n
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\nHistory Project: Chicago Race Riot, 1919\n

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\nThis lesson for high school students explores the race riot in Chicago in the summer of 1919. Students are asked to explain the reasons for the riot and address the questions in the lesson. Included are excerpts from 26 primary source...\n
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\nU.s. Department of Labor: The Federal Government and Negro Workers Under Wilson\n

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\nThis scholarly paper investigates the treatment of the federal government, sometimes ambivalent, sometimes hostile, during the presidential terms of Woodrow Wilson. See how Wilson's need for industrial workers and soldiers in the time...\n
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\nEncyclopedia of Chicago: World War I\n

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\nWorld War I brought turmoil to Chicago because of its large immigrant population, especially Germans. Read about how the war affected the politics and industry of Chicago both during and after the war.\n
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\nPbs: American Experience: The East St. Louis Riot\n

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\nRead about the shameful events and carnage in the targeting of African Americans in the East St. Louis Riot in 1917. This was truly a black mark in race relations in the United States.\n
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\nAnnenberg Learner: Biography of America: A Vital Progressivism\n

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\nView a chapter from \"A Biography of America\" about the Progressive Era that focuses on minority and immigrant perspectives. An excellent resources for understanding the struggles of Native American, Mexican immigrant, Asian immigrant,...\n
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\nDigital History: The Progressive Era\n

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\nA good overview of the many social and economic changes that occurred in the United States in the early 20th century. There are hyperlinks to information about the many social reforms, the sad state of race relations at the time, and the...\n
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\nNational Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Leaving, but Staying\n

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\nAccounts of African American migrations from the rural South to Southern cities. This resource provides not just accounts of the Great Migration focusing on the flight from the South to the North, but also the migration within the South...\n
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\nAlberta Online Encyclopedia: The Land of Opportunity: Heritage Trails\n

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\nThis is a collection of audio and text files that describes Alberta's early history as the west is opened for settlement. Included are the stories about the great migration of immigrants from all over Europe, Asia and North America who...\n
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\nMit: Open Course Ware: The Places of Migration in United States History\n

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\nMIT provides and extensive list of reading and viewing materials in regard to the migration within the United States. Lecture notes and possible assignments included.\n
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\nNational Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Leaving, 1960, Making of African American Identity: V. 3,\n

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\nThis exercise examines black migration from the South in the 1960's through the perspective of Alice Walker's \"Roselily.\" A PDF accompanies this resource, reviewing the deeper meaning behind a passage from this text.\n
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\nDpla: Exodusters: African American Migration to the Great Plains\n

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\nThe resources here, including letters, photographs, official documents, and maps, represent the exodus of African Americans from the South to the Great Plains in the late 1800s.\n
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\nNational Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Migrations: Negro Migration During War\n

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\nAn analysis of the reasons why blacks moved north around the time of World War I. An article by Emmett J. Scott (1873-1957), who for a time served as Booker T. Washington's personal secretary, is linked to this resource.\n
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\nPostbellum African American Society and Culture: Black Migration\n

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\nFrom the Encyclopedia of American Social History. Read about the black migration to the West, primarily Kansas and Oklahoma after the end of Reconstruction and the institution of black codes in the South.\n
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\nNational Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Forward:1917\n

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\nLetters, an article, a pamphlet, and a song that point to greater black migration from the South and black cultural achievements in the twentieth century. The texts examines how migrations north affected the relationships of African...\n
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\nIn Motion: The African American Migration Experience\n

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\nA look at the migration of the African American people. The site includes images, texts, maps, and timeline.\n
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\nLoc: African American Mosaic: Black History and Culture\n

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\nOnline version of a Library of Congress exhibit, covering information about black history, including colonization, abolition, migrations, and the WPA. It is multimedia and contains hundreds of primary source documents.\n
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\nNational Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Chicago Riots\n

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\nAn analysis of the 1919 Chicago race riot and a description of African American life in Chicago. One analysis is provided by Charles Johnson, editor of the Urban League's magazine Opportunity, describing the problems that beset black...\n
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\nLoc: The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship\n

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\nOnline exhibit from the Library of Congress explores black America's quest for equality from the early national period through the twentieth century. Exhibit contains a wealth of items including books, government documents, manuscripts,...\n
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\nPbs Learning Media: What Was the Harlem Renaissance?\n

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\nProfessor Kate Rushin describes the Harlem Renaissance as a large social and cultural movement fueled by many factors in this video from A Walk Through Harlem.\n
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\nUniversity of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Sandburg on Race\n

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\nThis article from the University of Illinois covers the work of Carl Sandburg as a reporter in Chicago during the riots of 1919.\n
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