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Through extensive collections of oral history Behind the Veil, intends to “correct historical misrepresentations of African American experiences during the period of legal segregation in the United States.” Further, Behind the Veil “seeks to record and preserve the living memory of African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.” The photo archives in Behind the Veil, center on everyday portraits of ordinary people. Though awkwardly designed and a bit challenging to navigate, this site contains useful images and stories about segregation in the Jim Crow South.
CIVIL RIGHTS IN MISSISSIPPI DIGITAL ARCHIVE
The Civil Rights in Mississippi oral history site contains an extensive collection of stories and materials about the Civil Rights struggle in Mississippi. Civil Rights in Mississippi is listed as an exemplary oral history website in the History Matters project at George Mason University. The home page contains links to: Digital Collections, Oral Histories, Manuscripts, Photographs, Manuscript Finding Aids, Civil Rights in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Other Civil Rights Resources, Copyright, and a Special Collections Digital Lab. This site is rich in images and primary source materials.
The History of Jim Crow site designed as a resource for teachers contains a wealth of information of interest to researchers. The teacher resources and interactive activities for students are comprehensive and well organized. Easy to navigate, this site offers uniformity in content and presentation of lesson plans, and essays written largely by history professors.
Remembering Jim Crow, based on a documentary of the same name, contains extensive audio oral histories of black and white Americans who lived through segregation in the Jim Crow South. Organized in six thematic sections, the voices of people who lived during this tragic period in American history are heard through first person narratives. Short historical overviews provides context for each section, which link to actual Jim Crow laws. Slide shows featuring images from individual, as well as broader historic moments provide useful visual context for each thematic section.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARY DIGITAL ARCHIVE: BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
The University of Michigan Library’s Digital Archive on Brown v. Board of Education contains images, statistics, summaries of court cases, and numerous related links on segregation, and integration particularly in Northern areas like Ann Arbor, Michigan. The site also contains oral histories, and arguments of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. Links to numerous related sites make this digital archive useful to web researchers.