Reconstruction Websites
Topic 7
CA HSS Standard 8.11
Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction.
LINKS UPDATED 4.17.21
Reconstruction Information
Andrew Johnson (HIstory Channel)
Biographies of Famous Americans (http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/biographies/)
Civil Rights Movement Timeline (https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement)
Museum:National Memorial for Peace & Justice (lynching memorial) (https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/)
Reconstruction (History Channel)
Repeal of Miscegenation Laws (laws outlawing inter-racial marriage) in the U.S.https://www.aclu.org/other/map-leadup-loving
Slavery Following the Civil War Interactive Timeline (PBS)
Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Map
Timeline of Reconstruction (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/reconstruction/timeline.html)
Timeline: Ulysses S Grant (PBS)
Tulsa Race Massacre (HIstory Channel)
Reconstruction Primary Sources
19th Century (1800-1899) Primary Sources: Yale Law School (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/19th.asp)
Freedman's Bureau's Effectiveness (http://docsteach.org/activities/28)
Ku Klux Klan (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Trial of Andrew Johnson (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Reconstruction Pictures
Andrew Johnson Photo Gallery (History Channel)
Segregation Pictures (https://www.frishphoto.com)
Segregation Photos (Getty Images)
Slavery by Another Name Gallery (PBS)
Tulsa Race Riots (History Channel)
Ulysses S Grant Photo Gallery (PBS)
Reconstruction Videos
*Accidental Racist Song by Brad Paisley & LL Cool J (YouTube)
Alaska Purchased from the Russians Mr. Beat (YouTube)
Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War FULL DOCUMENTARY (YouTube)
Failure of Reconstruction (History Channel)
*Green Book: Guide that helped blacks travel during Segregation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b33PN2NB2Do&feature=youtu.be)
KKK (History Channel)
Presidents of the US: Reconstruction & the Gilded Age (YouTube)
*Reconstruction PBS Documentary (YouTube)
Sharecropping as Slavery (PBS)
Slavery by Another Name (PBS)
*Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday (YouTube)
Tulsa 1921: An American Tragedy --Tulsa Race Massacre Documentary (YouTube)
Ulysses S Grant American President Disney (YouTube)
Current Events
2014 KKK F. Glenn Miller's History Shooting (ABC)
2015 Banning of the Confederate Flag (http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a35912/confederate-flag-banned/)
2015 Most Racist Places in America (Washington Post)
2015 Oklahoma State Racist Video on ABC (YouTube)
2016 Cartoon History of Voting Rights (https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/14839/the-state-of-voting-rights-in-america-a-3-part-comic-series#jp-carousel-10389)
2016 Dylann Roof's Radicalization CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/19/us/charleston-church-shooting-suspect/)
2016 KKK Anaheim Rally (KTLA)
2016 KKK Photos by CBS (http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-kkk-today/)
2016 New Symbols of Hate (https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/28/us/hate-symbols-changing-trnd/index.html)
2017 1st Black President of Student Union: https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/us/racist-incidents-college-campuses/index.html
2017 Hate Crime Tracking (http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/health/hate-crimes-tracking-history-fbi/index.html)
2017 Obama Names 3 National Monuments Honoring Civil Rights (http://www.foxnews.com/politics)
2017 Racism on College Campuses (http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/us/racist-incidents-college-campuses/index.html)
2018 America is Still Segregated: Map (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/segregation-us-cities/?utm_term=.0be1942bef6d)
2018 Ancestors were on opposite sides of lynching, now they're friends (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/alabama-lynching-ancestors-friends.html)
2018 Documenting White Supremacists TIME (http://time.com/longform/white-supremacist-charlottesville-photos/)
2018 Escondido HS Racial Slur (https://www.10news.com/news/escondido-students-spell-racial-slur-in-photo-during-senior-picnic)
2018 Neo-Nazi Demonstration 4.21.18 (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6i8whr)
2019 Blackface, KKK Hoods & Mock Lynchings in College Yearbooks (USA Today)
2018 White man sought hit man to lynch his black neighbor (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/us/hitman-black-neighbor.html)
2019 Pam & Wanda's History https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2019/12/16/black-white-tucker-family-meet-confront-slavery-history/4412970002/
2019 Racism against Meghan Markle https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/07/uk/meghan-kate-social-media-gbr-intl/index.html
2020 Ahmaud Arbery Murder https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/us/ahmaud-arbery-video-william-bryan/index.html
2020 NAACP Leader Finds Target in His Backyard (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/naacp-leader-tennessee-finds-target-front-yard-n1204061)
2020 White Supremicist Propaganda on the Rise https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/12/us/white-supremacist-propaganda-adl-report-soh/index.html
2021 A Racial Slur, A Viral Video and a Reckoning (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html)
2021 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhoAGJUDEvc)
2021 Nathan Bedford Forrest (KKK Grand Wizard) TN State Holiday (https://fox17.com/news/local/tennessee-bill-to-remove-holiday-celebrating-nathan-bedford-forrest-fails-in-committee)
Reconstruction Information
Andrew Johnson (HIstory Channel)
Biographies of Famous Americans (http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/biographies/)
Civil Rights Movement Timeline (https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement)
Museum:National Memorial for Peace & Justice (lynching memorial) (https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/)
Reconstruction (History Channel)
Repeal of Miscegenation Laws (laws outlawing inter-racial marriage) in the U.S.https://www.aclu.org/other/map-leadup-loving
Slavery Following the Civil War Interactive Timeline (PBS)
Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Map
Timeline of Reconstruction (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/reconstruction/timeline.html)
Timeline: Ulysses S Grant (PBS)
Tulsa Race Massacre (HIstory Channel)
Reconstruction Primary Sources
19th Century (1800-1899) Primary Sources: Yale Law School (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/19th.asp)
Freedman's Bureau's Effectiveness (http://docsteach.org/activities/28)
Ku Klux Klan (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Trial of Andrew Johnson (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
Reconstruction Pictures
Andrew Johnson Photo Gallery (History Channel)
Segregation Pictures (https://www.frishphoto.com)
Segregation Photos (Getty Images)
Slavery by Another Name Gallery (PBS)
Tulsa Race Riots (History Channel)
Ulysses S Grant Photo Gallery (PBS)
Reconstruction Videos
*Accidental Racist Song by Brad Paisley & LL Cool J (YouTube)
Alaska Purchased from the Russians Mr. Beat (YouTube)
Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War FULL DOCUMENTARY (YouTube)
Failure of Reconstruction (History Channel)
*Green Book: Guide that helped blacks travel during Segregation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b33PN2NB2Do&feature=youtu.be)
KKK (History Channel)
Presidents of the US: Reconstruction & the Gilded Age (YouTube)
*Reconstruction PBS Documentary (YouTube)
Sharecropping as Slavery (PBS)
Slavery by Another Name (PBS)
*Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday (YouTube)
Tulsa 1921: An American Tragedy --Tulsa Race Massacre Documentary (YouTube)
Ulysses S Grant American President Disney (YouTube)
Current Events
2014 KKK F. Glenn Miller's History Shooting (ABC)
2015 Banning of the Confederate Flag (http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a35912/confederate-flag-banned/)
2015 Most Racist Places in America (Washington Post)
2015 Oklahoma State Racist Video on ABC (YouTube)
2016 Cartoon History of Voting Rights (https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/14839/the-state-of-voting-rights-in-america-a-3-part-comic-series#jp-carousel-10389)
2016 Dylann Roof's Radicalization CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/19/us/charleston-church-shooting-suspect/)
2016 KKK Anaheim Rally (KTLA)
2016 KKK Photos by CBS (http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-kkk-today/)
2016 New Symbols of Hate (https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/28/us/hate-symbols-changing-trnd/index.html)
2017 1st Black President of Student Union: https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/us/racist-incidents-college-campuses/index.html
2017 Hate Crime Tracking (http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/health/hate-crimes-tracking-history-fbi/index.html)
2017 Obama Names 3 National Monuments Honoring Civil Rights (http://www.foxnews.com/politics)
2017 Racism on College Campuses (http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/us/racist-incidents-college-campuses/index.html)
2018 America is Still Segregated: Map (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/segregation-us-cities/?utm_term=.0be1942bef6d)
2018 Ancestors were on opposite sides of lynching, now they're friends (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/alabama-lynching-ancestors-friends.html)
2018 Documenting White Supremacists TIME (http://time.com/longform/white-supremacist-charlottesville-photos/)
2018 Escondido HS Racial Slur (https://www.10news.com/news/escondido-students-spell-racial-slur-in-photo-during-senior-picnic)
2018 Neo-Nazi Demonstration 4.21.18 (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6i8whr)
2019 Blackface, KKK Hoods & Mock Lynchings in College Yearbooks (USA Today)
2018 White man sought hit man to lynch his black neighbor (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/us/hitman-black-neighbor.html)
2019 Pam & Wanda's History https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2019/12/16/black-white-tucker-family-meet-confront-slavery-history/4412970002/
2019 Racism against Meghan Markle https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/07/uk/meghan-kate-social-media-gbr-intl/index.html
2020 Ahmaud Arbery Murder https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/us/ahmaud-arbery-video-william-bryan/index.html
2020 NAACP Leader Finds Target in His Backyard (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/naacp-leader-tennessee-finds-target-front-yard-n1204061)
2020 White Supremicist Propaganda on the Rise https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/12/us/white-supremacist-propaganda-adl-report-soh/index.html
2021 A Racial Slur, A Viral Video and a Reckoning (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html)
2021 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhoAGJUDEvc)
2021 Nathan Bedford Forrest (KKK Grand Wizard) TN State Holiday (https://fox17.com/news/local/tennessee-bill-to-remove-holiday-celebrating-nathan-bedford-forrest-fails-in-committee)
