Strategies of Uplift in the Jim Crow Era
Ida B. Wells, 1893
“Negro Expulsion From Railway Car”
African American schoolhouse, Virginia, ca. 1920
Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors, 1892
The lynching of Henry Smith, Texas, 1893
Will James, lynched in Cairo, Illinois, 1909
Crowd at the lynching of Jesse Washington, Waco, Texas, 1916
Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. Marion, Indiana, 1930
Booker T. Washington speaking before a southern crowd, ca. 1895
Booker T. Washington delivers a lecture at Carnegie Hall, 1906
W.E.B. Du Bois, historian and civil rights activist, ca. 1905
“Lynchings in the U.S.: The Massacre of Negroes in Atlanta,” Le Petit Journal (Fr),
1906
“The Reason,” The Crisis, 1920
“Sambo Target” dart game, ca. 1950
Hattie McDaniel as “Mammy” in Gone With The Wind, 1939
Postcard, 1900
Gus as the “Brute” in Birth of a Nation, 1915
“Zip coon” sheet music, ca. 1910
Stepin Fetchit as “Jeff Poindexter” in Judge Priest, ca. 1934
“The Ignorant Vote,” Harper’s Weekly, 1876
“Uncle Sam to Filipinos – ‘You’re Next,’” Judge, 1899