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Southern History since Reconstruction



General Resources for the South in the Late 19th Century:
The American South Home Page
19th Century History Sites Online

Race and Ethnicity in the South in the Late 19th Century
To El Centro's Africa and African-Americans Page
African-Americans in the South: Late 19th Century
Biographical Sketch of W. E. B. DuBois
The Booker T. Washington Era
The Atlanta Compromise
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
About Lynching
Lynching in America
Plessy v. Ferguson

Southern Politics
Grandfather Clause
Waves of Change: Florida, 1876-1919
19th Century Politics: Populist Links
Handbook of Texas: Farmers Alliances
A Shared Past: Agrarian Discontent
Texas Handbook - Colored Farmers Alliances
See 19th Century Politics
Suffrage in the South
Poll Taxes

Southern Women in the Late 19th Century:
Texas Handbook: Women's Christian Temperance Union
Address Before the Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union by Frances Willard, President
Rebecca Latimer Felton
Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century
Ida B. Wells
African-American Women Writers in the 19th Century

Southern Businesses and Industry in the Late 19th Century:
Handbook of Texas - Dr. Pepper
Dr. Pepper Links // Dr. Pepper Museum // Dr. Pepper

Southern Religion in the Late 19th Century:
Late 19th Century America - Religious Movements

Where to Learn More

Tour Guide Exercise


INSTRUCTIONS: Using the resources listed below or other sites you locate, design a Reconstruction tour using at least four different locations. Publish a webpage or write a paper with a detailed written description of the tour including what you would tell your travelers during the tour (i.e. your tour guide script). Be sure to list the resources you use either in the paper or as a bibliography.
Atlanta History Center
Museum of the Confederacy
Sloss Furnaces National Historical Landmark
Dr. Pepper Museum
Museum of the New South
Booker T. Washington National Monument



Instructor: Wanda Jones
E-Mail:
Wanda Downing Jones, El Centro College

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