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Built from the Fire :The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street : One Hundred Years in the Neighborhood That Refused to be Erased by Victor Luckerson, 2023.
American Atrocity:The Types of Violence in Lynching by Guy Lancaster, 2021.
Traveling Black: a story of race and resistance by Mia Bay, 2023.
The Enduring Legacy:Structured Inequality in America's Public Schools by Mark Ryan, 2020.
Making Black History: the color line, culture, and race in the age of Jim Crow by Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, 2018.
The Bible Told Them So: how Southern Evangelicals fought to preserve white supremacy by J. Russell Hawkins, 2021.
The Blood Red Record: a review of the horrible lynchings and burning of Negroes by civilized white men in the United States, as taken from the records by John Edward Bruce, 1901.
Jim Crow's Legacy: The Lasting Impact of Segregation by
Being Somebody and Black Besides : An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life by George B. Nesbitt, 2021.
Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: the struggle over segregated recreation in America by Victoria W. Wolcott, 2012.
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors: stories from the Jim Crow Museum by David Pilgrim, 2018.
The Color of Law: Forgotten history of how our government segregated America by Richard Rothstein, 2017.
Separate and Unequal: Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court decision that legalized racism by
Benching Jim Crow: the rise and fall of the color line in southern college sports, 1890-1980 by Charles H. Martin, 2010.
Defending White Democracy: the making of a segregationist movement and the remaking of racial politics, 1936-1965 by Jason Morgan Ward, 2011.
Integrations: The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal by Lawrence Blum and Zoë Burkholder, 2021.
The Bill of the Century: the epic battle for the Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen, 2014.
The Counter-Revolution of 1836 : Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism by Gerald Horne, 2021.
The Black American experience. Segregation in America, 2008. Stewart Media, 32 min.
Driving while Black : Race, Space and Mobility in America, 2020. PBS. 2 hrs.
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice, 2016. Deborah Riley Draper, Director. 1.13 hrs.
News Clip: Segregation argued as school open. WBAP-TV, 1955. 3.20 min.
Making Our Way Out of No Way, PBS Documentary, 2013. 1hr.
Plessy v Ferguson and Segregation: Crash Course Black American History #21. Gale In Context, U.S. History, 2020. 10 min.
50 Years Later - Brown v Board of Education (May 17, 2004). PBS Newshour. 18 min.
1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Exhibit. Tulsa Historical Society and Museum.
Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University
Separate and unequal: Persistent residential segregation is sustaining racial and economic injustice in the U.S, Brookings Institution, 2020.
A Negro Nation Within a Nation. Speech by W.E.B. Du Bois, 1934.
Segregation in America Report, 2018. The Equal Justice Initiative.