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“Letter from Jourdon Anderson: The
Aftermath of Slavery”
Leon Litwack, Department
of History, University of California,
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Leon
Litwack is a professor at the
University of California at Berkeley and
a noted authority on black history. He
has authored several books including North
of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States,
1790-1860, Trouble in Mind: Black
Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow,
The Harvard Guide to African-American
History, General Editor (2001) and
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath
of Slavery (winner of the 1980 Pulitzer
Prize and the National Book Award). He
has also served as academic advisor for
such PBS TV series as Rise
and Fall of Jim Crow (2002)
and Reconstruction:
The Second Civil War (2004).
Professor Litwack discusses his
long & distinguished teaching career
in
an interview with Leon F. Litwack,
available online at the History Matters
website.
Linked
Resources
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- Oration of Frederick Douglass
at the unveiling of the Freedman's
Monument, April 14, 1876. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LINCOLN/douglass.html
- Lincoln Freedmen Memorial - This
statue was commissioned by emancipated
African Americans as a memorial
to Abraham Lincoln. It was sculpted
by Thomas Ball and dedicated in
1876 in Washington, D.C., by Frederick
Douglass. Speaking at the unveiling
of the statue, Douglass gave Lincoln
credit for his achievements, but
remarked that the statue was a white
man's monument to a white man's
president.
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/emancipation/before.html#images
- This photograph is of a sculpture
called Forever Free, created
by African American artist Mary
Edmonia Lewis in 1867. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/section1/section1_03.html
- Frederick Douglass assesses the
meaning of emancipation in 1880.
http://www.gliah.uh.edu/black_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=86
- Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Website
based on four-part televised series,
which explores segregation from
the end of the civil war to the
dawn of the modern civil rights
movement.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
- Remembering Jim Crow: American
RadioWorks collected personal histories
of people directly affected by Jim
Crow.
http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/remembering/
- America's Reconstruction: People
& Politics After the Civil War:
Digital exhibit based on text by
Eric Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor
of History at Columbia University,
and Olivia Mahoney, Director of
Historical Documentation at the
Chicago Historical Society. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html
- Reconstruction: The Second Civil
War (broadcast January 2004)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/
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