Data Visualizations
- The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes, The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
- Civil War Monuments, How, when, and where the North and South memorialize the conflict.
- Map of White Supremacy mob violence, the lynchings and riots to enforce racial superiority in the US
Lynching (Note: graphic, disturbing content)
- Without Sanctuary, collector James Allen has found photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America
- Lynchings by states and counties in the United States, 1900-1931
- Three Lynchings, Three Photographs
- The sadism of white men Why America must atone for its lynchings
- New Lynching Memorial Is A Space ‘To Talk About All Of That Anguish’
Mass Incarceration
- Books: The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
Slavery by Another Name, Douglas A Blackmon - Breaking Down Mass Incarceration in the 2010 Census
- Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Promised a Criminal Justice Revolution. He’s Exceeding Expectations.
- There was no wave of compassion when addicts were hooked on crack
- Why We Never Talk About Black-on-Black Crime: An Answer to White America’s Most Pressing Question
Primary Sources:
- Excerpts from Slave Narratives
- The Diary of Bennet H. Barrow, Louisiana Slaveowner
- Daily Life on a Colonial Plantation, 1709-11
- What Robert E. Lee wrote to the Times about slavery in 1858?
- Documents of the Confederate States of America
- Emancipation Digital Classroom
- The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, Autobiographical Sketch, Richard Wright
- “A Talk to Teachers”, James Baldwin
- Letter from Birmingham Jail (abridged)
- The Civil Rights Movement fraud, sham and hoax 1964, George Wallace
Redlining
- Book: The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
- Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America
- Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC Maps)
- DETROITography and Detroit Geographic Expedition and Institute
Social Justice Initiatives
- The Marshall Project, nonprofit journalism about criminal justice
- Equal Justice Initative, private, nonprofit organization that challenges poverty and racial injustice…
- The Truth Telling Project, A Truth Initiative Regarding Structural Violence and Racism
- Black Lives Matter, it’s more than a hashtag battle, it’s a movement
Rondo
- Before it was cut in half by I-94, St. Paul’s Rondo was a thriving African-American cultural center
- Rondo Oral History Project
- Central Corridor: In the shadow of Rondo
Philando Castile
- Comprehensive overview of the shooting of Philando Castile
- Philando Castile remembered as warm, quiet, loved by students
- The view from Philando Castile’s empty seat on the porch
- A retracing of steps: Castile’s funeral procession through Rondo
- Philando Castile Had Been Stopped 52 Times by Police
- Officer’s lawyer: Castile pulled over because he matched robbery suspect
- Is Philando Castile the Ultimate Casualty of Driving While Black?
- Old Questions But No New Answers in the Philando Castile Verdict
- Philando Castile Family Reaches $3 Million Settlement
- Yanez Leaves Police Department Under Separation Agreement
- Diamond Reynolds: the woman who streamed a police shooting becomes a Renaissance Madonna