Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I discovered an online research tool -- an interactive map -- that tells real stories about real people in the Jim Crow South and which broadened my understanding of mob racial violence. So I thought I'd share it with you.

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LINKS:
Monroe and Florence Work Today (with interactive map): plaintalkhistory.com/monroeandflorencework
Without Sanctuary (photos and commentary on lynched Americans): withoutsanctuary.org/main.html
The Legacy Museum web site: legacysites.eji.org
Reconstruction: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era
Black Codes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States)
Convict Leasing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_leasing
Jim Crow: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
Ku Klux Klan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
White Citizens Councils: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Councils
Sharecropping: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping
US Slavery: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States

#blackhistory #civilrights

Music:
Kalimba Relaxation Music by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5711-kalimba-relaxation-music
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