African Americans and Civil Rights

The Library of Congress has digitized its extensive collection of African American pamphlets produced from 1824-1909. I encourage you to consider using this collection for research on many topics, and to spend some time searching the collection prior to our class discussion. You are required to look at the following specific pamphlets:

1) Maps outlining black population in the U.S. 1890 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbaapc&fileName=10601/rbaapc10601.db&recNum=14

2) Two selections on Segregation and Violence:

• Protection of American Citizens
  Pamphlet - "The Black Laws"
  by Bishop B. W. Arnett
• Mob-violence and Anarchy, North and South
  Pamphlet - "Lynch Laws in Georgia"
  by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

3) Three selections on Black Education

• Industrial Education
  Pamphlet - "Nineteenth Annual Report of the Tuskegee Institute"
  by Booker T. Washington
• Higher Education
  Pamphlet - "The Primary Needs of the Negro Race"
  by Kelly Miller
• S. R. Scottron on Black Education 1901

4) Scientific Racism

• LeConte on the Race Problem 1898