The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contains several...
Set against the backdrop of the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre, The Marrow of Tradition is a powerful and unflinching exploration of the dee...
Charles W. Chesnutt's *The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line* explores the complex social realities of the post-Reconstruction Sou...
'Colonel's Dream' by Charles Waddell Chesnutt delves into the harsh realities of Reconstruction in the post-Civil War South. It paints a bleak picture...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett's "Mob Rule in New Orleans" documents a horrific week of mob violence against Black residents in early 20th-century New Orleans....
This autobiography recounts the life and work of Booker T. Washington, a prominent African American leader who rose from slavery to become a leading a...
Published in the early 20th century, 'Jim Crow Car' by Reverend John Clay Coleman offers a firsthand account of the oppressive Jim Crow era in the Ame...
This volume, part of the larger 'Slave Narratives' project, presents a collection of first-hand accounts from former slaves in North Carolina. These n...
“The South” by Langston Hughes is a powerful poem that offers a stark and unflinching portrayal of the South during the Jim Crow era. Using vivid imag...
This issue of *The Crisis*, the official publication of the NAACP, focuses on the pressing issues of racial prejudice and inequality in early 20th-cen...
