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Mission-US
Mission US is a multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history. The first game, Mission 1: "For Crown or Colony?," puts the player in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a 14-year-old printer's apprentice [...]
Description of Sharecropping
This short essay describes the sharecropping system that supported the agricultural economy of the South after slavery.
Map of Migration Routes Followed by African Americans During the Great Migration
Between 1910 and 1930, more than one million African Americans moved out of the South to cities in the North, Midwest, and West. They sought economic opportunity, freedom from racial segregation, and safety from lynching and other kinds of racist [...]
Black Chicagoans Describe Their Great Migration Experiences
In the summer of 1919, violence broke out between whites and African Americans in Chicago. The five-day riot left thirty-eight people dead and more than five hundred people injured. The city formed a Commission on Race Relations to study what [...]
Black Chicagoans Describe their Migration Experiences worksheet
This worksheet is designed to help students draw historical understanding from the experiences of African Americans who moved north during the Great Migration.
Examples of U.S. Laws Requiring Racial Segregation (short version, with text supports)
From the 1880s to the mid 1960s, many states passed laws requiring the segregation [separation] of white and "colored" [African American] people. (African Americans were also referred to as Negroes at that time.) These laws ruled nearly all aspects [...]
For New Life, Blacks in City Head to South
This article explores the return migration of African Americans from New York City to the South, reversing the Great Migration that took place in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Active Viewing: Up South Activity Writing Prompt
This is a writing prompt for the Active Viewing: Up South activity.
Active Viewing: Up South
In this activity, students watch the ASHP documentary Up South: African-American Migration in the Era of the Great War with documents and exercises designed to support and reinforce the documentary's key concepts of Jim Crow, lynching, [...]
Active Viewing: Up South vocabulary sheet
These words and phrases from the Up South documentary may be unfamiliar to students.