Research Guides: Gatsby: Cultural Background: Racism, Migration, Segregation

Racism, Migration, Segregation

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ABC-CLIO American History This link opens in a new window
Background information, primary sources, and perspectives essays exploring American history from 1350 to the present, organized chronologically and thematically, linking reference, curriculum, and analysis of current events. Browse by type of content, topic, and era.
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Internet Sources

The Segregation Era (1900–1939) [Library of Congress]
This exhibition, which commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, explores the events that shaped the civil rights movement, as well as the far-reaching impact the act had on a changing society.
Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s [Ohio State University]
An online exhibit providing access to a variety of primary source materials related to the changing American culture in the early 1900s.
Behind the Veil [Duke University]
Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the primary purpose of this documentary project was to record and preserve the living memory of African American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.
Racism in 1920
Everyone is entitled to the US constitution, but certain classes in America were not viewed equally in the 1920s.

Books & eBooks

Roots of Racism by Kelly Bakshi Ed
Call Number: 305 BAK
ISBN: 9781532110375
Publication Date: 2017-09-01
Racism in America by Steven L. Foy
Call Number: 305.800973 FOY
ISBN: 9781440856402
Publication Date: 2020-02-24
Growing up African American by Garnett S. Huguley
Call Number: 305.896073 HUG
ISBN: 1410763765
Publication Date: 2003-07-07
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Call Number: 305.8009730904 ROT
ISBN: 9781631492853
Publication Date: 2017-05-02
Black Exodus by Alferdteen Harrison (Editor)
Call Number: 305.896073 BLA
ISBN: 0878056092
Publication Date: 1992-07-30
A Nation under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
Call Number: 975.0049607301734 HAH
ISBN: 0674011694
Publication Date: 2003-11-10

Videos

The "Race Problem" In The 1920s
Discrimination and prejudice against black people in America was nothing new in the 1920s, but things were beginning to look better as multiple movements emerged seeking equality and understanding.
Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation in America
Although slavery had ended, this did not mean that black Americans were entirely free. The Supreme Court's decision in the Plessy v. Ferguson case legally allowed "separate but equal" practices. But African Americans were anything but treated equally in the Jim Crow South.