Resources
Here you will find relevant resources to supplement the exhibit, “Black Summer”.
Black Lives Matter / Contemporary Movements
Articles
America's Long Overdue Awakening to Systemic Racism
JUNE 11, 2020 6:41 AM EDT
Audio / Visual
Other Resources / Links
CLICK HERE - BLACK LIVES MATTER / CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENTS LINKS
Black Lives Matter website:
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/17/08/confronting-racism-early-age
BENCRUMP.COM – Attorney of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tamir Rice, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
https://bencrump.com/civil-rights-lawyer/the-breonna-taylor-settlement/
Book| WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORIST
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: | https://www.amazon.com/Stamped-Antiracism-National-Award-winning-Beginning/dp/0316453692
Civil Rights / Black History
Articles
A Very Abbreviated Version of Black Art History
By: Shantay Robinson
November 20, 2018
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
Other Resources / Links
CLICK HERE - CIVIL RIGHTS / BLACK HISTORY LINKS
Systematic Inequality and Economic Opportunity | https://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 Gap | https://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 Students | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2658IoJVxQ
Greenwood and the Tulsa Race Riots | https://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/
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
How US schools punish Black kids | 2020 Election – https://youtu.be/lFJ37ri-Saw
“Eugenics” – History.com | https://www.history.com/topics/germany/eugenics#:~:text=Eugenics%20is%20the%20practice%20or,characteristics%20from%20the%20human%20population
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
Rhetorical Narratives of Black Entrepreneurs: The Business of Race, Agency, and Cultural Empowerment
By: Natasha N. Jones
March 28, 2017
How social media is helping students of color speak out about racism on campus
By: Christian Peña
Sep 8, 2020 6:28 PM EST
Four Studies of Black Healing
Gioncarlo Valentine and
April 2, 2021
Audio / Visual
Other Resources / Links
CLICK HERE - BLACK LIFE / BLACK CULTURE LINKS
Police / Black Incarceration
Articles
The Racial Geography of Mass Incarceration
By: Peter Wagner and Daniel Kopf
July, 2015
“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
Reports Find Record Number of Exonerations in 2016, Blacks More Likely to be Wrongfully Convicted
By: Dealth Pentality Information Center
March 08, 2017
The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
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
Other Resources / Links
CLICK HERE - POLICE / BLACK INCARCERATION LINKS
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/17/08/confronting-racism-early-age
RACE AND WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Race_and_Wrongful_Convictions.pdf
“List of Innocence Projects/Wrongful Conviction Centers By State” – Legal Knowledge Network
Hard Truths: Law Enforcement and Race | https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/hard-truths-law-enforcement-and-race