IS 8001 Fall 2006: Module 3

African Americans and Violence in American History

READINGS

Session 1: Slavery and Anti-slavery in British North America

• To be distributed in class

Session 2: Reconstruction, Redemption, Jim Crow and Lynching

• "A Warlike Demonstration ": Legalism, Armed Resistence, and Black Political Mobilization in Decatur, Illinois, 1894-1898
• Origins of the New South in Retrospect
• Meta Warrick's 1907 "Negro Tableaux" and (Re)Presenting African American Historical Memory
• About Lynching (website)
• Lynchings in America (website)
• Duluth Lynchings (website)

Session 3: World War, Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement

• Resurrecting Emmett Till
• Civil Rights Success and the Politics of Racial Violence
• Bob Dylan and Emmett Till
• PBS and Emmett Till