Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow

FAIN: GI-259343-18

New York Historical Society (New York, NY 10024-5152)
Marci Reaven (Project Director: August 2017 to present)

Implementation of a national touring exhibition, educational programing, and a website exploring citizenship and Jim Crow laws in the post-emancipation era.

The New-York Historical Society respectfully requests a Chairman's Special Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a major traveling exhibition and educational initiative titled Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow. Scheduled to be on view in New York from September 2018 through January 2019, the project will include a 3,000-square-foot exhibition, a suite of public programs, digital educational curriculum with national reach, on-site workshops for students and teachers, an illustrated publication, and a multimedia resource website. Following its run in New York, the exhibition will embark on a national touring schedule.

Associated Products

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow Educational Curriculum (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow Educational Curriculum
Author: Marjorie Waters
Author: Dylan Yeats
Abstract: These materials, produced in connection with the 2018 exhibition Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow, explore the contested efforts toward full citizenship and racial equality for African Americans that transpired in the fifty years after the Civil War. The period between the end of slavery in 1865 and the end of World War I in 1919 saw African Americans champion their rights as the “separate but equal” age of Jim Crow began. Examining both the activism for and opposition to black citizenship rights, the works of art, political cartoons, photographs, documents, primary accounts, and timelines in this curriculum underscore how ideas of freedom and citizenship were redefined by government and citizen action, and challenged by legal discrimination and violence. TOPICS: Reconstruction, Jim Crow, citizenship rights, voting rights, segregation, lynching, sharecropping, disenfranchisement, exodusters, racial stereotypes, Lost Cause mythology, Confederate monuments, white supremacy, black activism, the NAACP, the Great Migration, military service STRUCTURE: three units—Reconstruction, 1865-1877; The Rise of Jim Crow, 1877-1900; and Challenging Jim Crow, 1900-1919
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://www.nyhistory.org/education/professional-learning/curriculum-library
Primary URL Description: New-York Historical Society Free Curriculum Library
Audience: K - 12

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow exhibition (Exhibition)
Title: Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow exhibition
Curator: Lily Wong
Curator: Marci Reaven
Abstract: Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow explores the struggle for full citizenship and racial equality that unfolded in the 50 years after the Civil War. When slavery ended in 1865, a period of Reconstruction began, leading to such achievements as the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/black-citizenship-age-jim-crow

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