Resources

Here you will find relevant resources to supplement the exhibit, “Black Summer”.

Black Lives Matter / Contemporary Movements

Articles 

Audio / Visual

Other Resources / Links

CLICK HERE - BLACK LIVES MATTER / CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENTS LINKS

Civil Rights / Black History

Articles 

Truth and Reconciliation

By:  

The Murder of Emmett Till

By: Library of Congress

Youth in the Civil Rights Movement

By: Library of Congress

The March on Washington

By: Library of Congress

Audio / Visual

Black Liberation Theology, in its Founder's Words

by March 31, 200810:59 AM ET Heard on Fresh Air

Other Resources / Links

CLICK HERE - CIVIL RIGHTS / BLACK HISTORY LINKS

Systematic Inequality and Economic Opportunityhttps://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2019/08/07/472910/systematic-inequality-economic-opportunity/

Systematic Inequality and American Democracy | https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2019/08/07/473003/systematic-inequality-american-democracy/

Simulating How Progressive Proposals Affect the Racial Wealth Gaphttps://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2019/08/07/473117/simulating-progressive-proposals-affect-racial-wealth-gap/

Systemic Inequality: Displacement, Exclusion, and Segregation | https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2019/08/07/472617/systemic-inequality-displacement-exclusion-segregation/

Why American Public Schools Are Failing Studentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2658IoJVxQ

Greenwood and the Tulsa Race Riotshttps://www.pbs.org/wnet/boss/video/greenwood-and-tulsa-race-riots-tbkhcr/

A Black Women’s History of the United States | https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/567157/a-black-womens-history-of-the-united-states-by-daina-ramey-berry/

The Assassination of Fred Hampton: New Documents Reveal Involvement of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vewm6-FEIQs

Where Did Chicago Go Wrong? America’s Hyper-Segregated City (Poverty Documentary) | Real Stories – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot7xCM-Oeig&list=PLFXEVWvF3vxv1ru_1uHnHN5zTEvT0WwDd&index=2

 

Black Life / Black Culture

Articles 

Black is Beautiful: The Emergence of Black Culture and Identity in the 60s and 70s

By: National Muesem of African American History & Culture

Four Studies of Black Healing

Gioncarlo Valentine and 

April 2, 2021

 

Audio / Visual

Police / Black Incarceration

Articles 

“Kettling” Protesters in the Bronx - Mott Haven Protest

Systemic Police Brutality and Its Costs in the United States

By: Human Rights Watch

September 30, 2020

Death Penalty

The question we need to ask about the death penalty in America is not whether someone deserves to die for a crime. The question is whether we deserve to kill.

By: Equal Justice Initiative

Innocent African Americans More Likely to be Wrongfully Convicted

By: Equal Justice Initiative

March 10, 2017

Race, Drugs, and Law Enforcement in the United States

By: Published in the Stanford Law and Policy Review

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Audio / Visual