Overviews of US Racial History
NB: this is a work in progress; suggestions are welcome
African American History Timeline Blackpast.org
Videos
Crash Course Black American History Preview
Articles
Books
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Websites
The Smithsonian "158 Resources to Understand Racism in America"
By Time Period
1619-1776
"Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston" by Jared Ross Hardesty
Equal Justice Initiative "The Transatlantic Slave Trade"
1776-1789
The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution by Gary Nash
1789-1861
1861-1877
1877-1919
1920-1954
The Story of Marcus Garvey A Documentary
1954-1966
1966-197?
1980-2014
2014-present
By Topic
Slavery and Resistance to It
Videos
Dawn of Day: Stories from the Underground Railroad
Robert Smalls - A Life Too Big To Forget
Articles
Books
Hidden in Plain View
Nat Turner, a graphic novel by Kyle Baker
The Underground Railroad Records William Still
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Through the Eyes of a Slave : Written Accounts of American Slavery. Read & Co. History 2020.
Channels
Songs
Education
Videos
Articles
History of Howard University Law School
Reinventing Law Education at Howard University (2001)
Books
Channels
Songs
Housing
Videos
All the Way Home (1957) | When A Black Family Moves Next Door (Not what you might expect)
How Racism Is Built Into America’s Interstate Highways - Beyond the Scenes | The Daily Show
Jim Crow of the North - Full-Length Documentary
Articles
‘White Men’s Roads Through Black Men’s Homes’: Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction, Deborah N. Archer, (February 18, 2020). 73 Vanderbilt Law Review 1259 (2020), NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-49, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3539889
Books
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017)
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansbury
Websites
Channels
Songs
Black Film: Then and Now
Videos
Kino-Lorber Pioneers of African-American Cinema
Articles
Books
Websites
Channels
Songs
Black Newspapers
Videos
Articles
Books
The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Ethan Michaeli
Websites
Channels
Songs
Analysis of Media representation
Videos
Books
Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film by Ed Guerrero (PDFs available at Project MUSE)
Articles
Websites
Channels
Songs
Lynching
Videos
Articles
Books
A Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Websites
Channels
Songs
Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday and her Orchestra, Commodore (526-A), 1939
Sharecropping
Videos
Slavery by Another Name (PBS.org)
Articles
Books
Websites
Channels
Songs
Performing Arts: Film, Television, Music, and Plays
Videos
YouTube: The Godmother of Rock’n’Roll – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Articles
Books
Websites
Channels
Songs
Fine Arts
Videos
Articles
Books
Websites
National Gallery of Art, African American Artists
Channels
Songs
Racialized Law
Videos
The Black Cop: a villain, a victim and a hero – Bafta 2022 Best Short Film winner
The Part of History You've Always Skipped | Neoslavery
The Racist Origins of U.S. Law
Articles
Books
Websites
The Sentencing Project: https://www.sentencingproject.org/
The Center for Policing Equity: https://policingequity.org/
Un/Equal: A Series on Race and Inequality in America Harvard University
Channels
Songs
Identity??
Videos
Articles
Books
Websites
Channels
Songs
Defining Racist??
Videos
Articles
Books
Websites
Channels
Songs
Reparations
Videos
"The State Of Black America 150 Years After Emancipation" - William A. Darity and Darrick Hamilton (Critically important Q&A at 1:24:20-end)
Hybrid Hearing - An Enduring Legacy: The Role of Financial Institutions in the... (EventID=114620) (Only about 1h 15m–long break in middle for voting)
Articles
Books
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen (2020, The University of North Carolina Press)
Websites
Channels
Songs
By Genre
Autobiography and Personal Narrative
Douglass
Washington
Northrup and contemporaries
Slave narrative project from FWP
Biography
Memoir
Mississippi to Madrid: A Memoir of a Black American in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Yates
Non-fiction history
WEB DuBois, Foner
Fiction
The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Hate U Give Angie Thomas
Poetry
Phyllis Wheatley to Amanda Gorman
By Age-Appropriateness
Are reparations the answer to America's historic racial wealth gap?
https://caricomreparations.org/faqs/
Reparations & White Privilege - Between the Scenes | The Daily Show