Sundown Towns
Related Reading
- The Legend of A-N-N-A: Revisiting an American Town Where Black People Weren’t Welcome After DarkBy Logan Jaffe in ProPublica Illinois
- Memories From the South: Growing Up in a ‘Sundown Town’By Silas House at Time.com
- Sundown Towns and Counties: Racial Exclusion in the SouthBy James W. Loewn in Southern Cultures
- Where White People Are Scarier Than Monsters: The Hidden Black History of Lovecraft CountryBy Michael Harriot for The Root
Sundown Towns by Call Number: Ebook
Sundown Towns by Call Number: E185.615 .L577 2018
Hostile Heartland by Call Number: Ebook
Historic Black Neighborhoods & Black Spaces
- 9 Historic Black Neighborhoods That Celebrate Black ExcellenceBy Brianna Rhodes for National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Dave Louis: What is the Value of Unapologetic Black SpacesDave Louis, Texas Tech professor in the College of Education talks about the value of the unapologetic black spaces and why some students request a black student union.
- Why there’s nothing racist about black-only spacesBy Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff for The Gaurdian
Black Travel Guides
- Navigating the Green BookWebsite from the New York Public Library allows visitors to map their own road trip and see where businesses along the route served Black patrons in the 1940s and ‘50s.
- The Negro Motorist Green Book and Black America’s Perpetual Search For A HomeBy Carvel Wallace for The Toast
- The negro traveller's guide to a Jim Crow South: negotiating racialized landscapes during a dark period in United States cultural history, 1936–1967.By Michael Ra-Shon Hall in Postcolonial Studies
- Brochure promoting tourism and "The Negro Traveler's Green Book," 1950sComparison of SC state-sponsored travel guide and "The Negro Traveler's Green Book", 1950s
- The Negro Motorist Green-bookDigitized copy of original 1946 document from LOC
- NYPL Digital Collections: The Green BookCollection of 23 digitized copies of original Green Books dating from 1936-1967
- Mapping the Green BookSocial documentarian and National Geographic Grantee Candacy Taylor is documenting past and present Green Book sites in order to preserve this critical part of our history.
Feature Film: Green Book
- Green BookAbout the Academy Award-winning 2018 Best Picture
- What to Know About the Controversy Surrounding the Movie Green BookBy Andrew R. Chow from Time
- Why the ‘Green Book’ Controversies Don’t MatterBy Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from The Hollywood Reporter
Housing Segregation: Redlining
- America’s formerly redlined neighborhoods have changed, and so must solutions to rectify themBy Andre M. Perry and David Harshbarger from Brookings Institution
- Demolished: The End of Chicago’s Public HousingDavid Eads & Helga Salinas with photos by Patricia Evans for NPR
- Discrimination by Designby Lena V. Groeger for ProPublica
- The Evolution of Columbia's Neighborhoods: 1900s to PresentStoryMap by Sophie Kahler completed as part of senior thesis for South Carolina Honors College
- How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods SwelteringBy Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich, Photographs by Brian Palmer for the NY Times
- Mapping PrejudiceA project from the University of Minnesota Libraries visualizing the hidden histories of race and privilege in the built environment
- Why highways were designed to run through Black communities. SC faces historic dilemma again.By Adam Parker for the Post and Courier
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.Redlining archival map from LOC
- Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal AmericaA set of maps that illustrate the discriminatory New Deal-era housing policies that fueled generations of urban inequality.
- Confessions of a Block-BusterBy NORRIS VITCHEK as told to Alfred Balk, for the Saturday Evening Post, July 14, 1962
- The Color of Law SessionsVirtual series based on The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein.
- Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short HistoryCode Switch | NPR
- Jim Crow of the NorthFull-length documentary from the team behind Mapping Prejudice, examines real estate racial covenants & redlining in Minnesota
African Americans & Automobiles
- African-Americans and the driving forces in the American auto industryBy Herb Boyd for New York Daily News
- Black History Month Automotive from HondaPromotes African-American automobile history
- Driving "Jim Crow": Cars and Race in the United StatesBy Fon L. Gordon for Technology's Stories
- Driving While Black: The Car and Race Relations in Modern AmericaBy Thomas J. Sugrue, Professor of History and Sociology at University of Pennsylvania
- How ‘Shoebox Lunches’ Made Black Travel Possible During Jim CrowBy Nicole Taylor for Atlas Obscura
- The Only African American Automobile CompanyFrom the NMAMH
- The Social and Cultural Meaning of the Automobile for African-Americansby Emily K. Carian, Graduate Dissertation Fellow at Stanford University's Clayman Institute
Racial Violence, Policing, & Criminal Justice
- American TerrorBy Tim Madigan; Photographs by Zora J. Murff with Trent Bozeman for Smithsonian Magazine
- Building a Database From Scratch: Behind the Scenes With Documenting Hate PartnersBy Rachel Glickhouse for ProPublica
- The Cold Cases of the Jim Crow EraBy Margaret A. Burnham and Margaret M. Russell for NY Times
- Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st PolicingThe Final Report highlights six topic areas and recommends policies and best practices.
- The Stanford Open Policing ProjectThe Standford Open Policing Project team is gathering, analyzing, and releasing records from millions of traffic stops by law enforcement agencies across the country.
- Walking While Black: Jacksonville’s enforcement of pedestrian violations raises concerns that it’s another example of racial profilingBy Topher Sanders and Kate Rabinowitz, ProPublica, and Benjamin Conarck, Florida Times-Union
- ‘The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning’By Claudia Rankine for NY Times
- Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about injusticeTED Talk from human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who shares some hard truths about America's justice system.
Serial Podcast
A critical and sometimes jaw-dropping examination of the judicial style and sentencing tactics of Judge Daniel Gaul whom, by episode's end, host Sarah Koenig basically suggests ought to be investigated, and probably sanctioned, by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Radiolab Podcast
On this episode of More Perfect, the Supreme Court ruling that was supposed to prevent race-based jury selection, but may have only made the problem worse.