Civil Rights Unit Supporting Material: The Murder of Emmett Till
Legacy of Lynching Document 1A: Ida B. Wells-"Lynch Law in Georgia," 1899: This site contains the text of "Lynch Law in Georgia" and background information about Ida B.Legacy of Lynching
- Document 1A: Ida B. Wells-"Lynch Law in Georgia," 1899: This site contains the text of "Lynch Law in Georgia" and background information about Ida B. Wells and lynching.
- PBS, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: This site contains an image of the cover of "Lynch Law in Georgia" and the first page. The site also contains an image of Ida B. Wells and biographical information about this early civil rights activist.
- Alternate-Document 1B: Ida B. Wells-"Lynch Law in America"
- Document 2A: "Number of White & Colored Persons Lynched in United States, 1889-1918"
- Alternate-Document 2B: "Lynchings: By Year and Race"
History of Jim Crow
- Document 3: "Signs of Segregation" collection
- Document 4: Voices of Jim Crow (selection) "We Just Don't Do That," Mr. Donald Harris
- Document 5: Voices of Jim Crow (selection) "It Would Only Be a Matter of Time," Mr. Spurgeon Roberts
- Document 6: Alabama Laws (excerpt) "Jim Crow Laws," The Code of Alabama , volume 1, 1923
- Document 7: Executive Order 9981 (excerpt) Establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Forces
- Document 8: Front page of the Russell Daily News, "Segregation in Schools Is Outlawed"
- Document 9: Excerpt from Brown v. Board decision
- Document 10: Chicago Defender article, "African Americans Must Keep to One Side of the Sidewalk"
Precedent of Civil Rights Actions
- Document 9: Excerpt from Brown v. Board decision
- Document 10: Chicago Defender article, "African Americans Must Keep to One Side of the Sidewalk"
- Document 11: "Rally for the Proposed March on Washington, 1941": Flyer promoting the proposed March on Washington spearheaded by A. Philip Randolph
- Document 12: "The Tenth Annual Report of the NAACP for the Year 1919
- Document 13: Front page of The Crisis newspaper
Impact of the Media
- Document 14: "Do You Remember?" from American Experience, The Murder of Emmett Till Testimonials of seeing photographs of Emmett Till's mutilated corpse in Jet magazine
- Document 15: Excerpts from newspapers covering Emmett Till's murder and the trial of Milam and Bryant (click on press)
- Document 16: Reactions to the Look magazine article detailing the confessions of Milam and Bryant
- Document 17: "Emmett Till and the Impact of Images" (brief news story)
Aftermath of WWII and Integration of the Armed Services
- Document 7: Executive Order 9981 (excerpt): Establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Forces
- Document 5: "It Would Only Be a Matter of Time," Mr. Spurgeon Roberts
- Document 18: "Above and Beyond the Call of Duty," U.S. Government recruitment poster for the Navy
- Document 19: "The Return of the Soldier," drawing by Charles White (1946)
- Document 20: "United We Win," a poster published by the U.S. Office of War Information (1943)
