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Who inspires you and why? As we celebrate Black History Month we are reflecting on all those individuals who have worked for change in the United States. Please check out this playlist of resources on Black history, as well as our recent Scholar Talk series on Black Intellectuals and the African American Experience. Also noteworthy are the lessons and narratives Barbara Jordan, Watergate, and Justice and Courage Under Fire: The Selfless Decision of John Robert Fox from our American Portraits resource and the primary source activities, Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law,” 1893 and Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” April 12, 1964 from Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
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After the conclusion of the Civil War and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery was forever abolished in the United States. Though formerly enslaved individuals were now and forever free, many southern states soon passed Black codes. The states used Black codes to legally deprive Black Americans of many of their basic civil rights and attempted to place them in a subordinate position within society. This lesson invites students to examine a series of primary sources, including Mississippi’s Black code, to determine in what ways the legal status of African Americans changed after emancipation. It also asks them to explore, despite this legal change, what ways their experience remained unchanged.
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