A Lesson Before Dying
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Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities. A 1998 interview conducted by Bill Ferris, then chairman of the NEH, in which writer Ernest Gaines talks about storytelling, race, and his Louisiana roots.

An interview with Ernest Gaines conducted by students from Lafayette High School in Lafayette, Louisiana on April 21, 1998. It was part of a project on Southern authors that appeared on the Web site Louisiana Legacy: A Celebration of Literature Through Technology.

An article on the Plessy v. Ferguson case—one of the earliest desegregation cases argued before the Supreme Court. This article appears on the Web site USINFO, which delivers information about current U.S. foreign policy and about American life and culture.

A sampling of Jim Crow laws from various states created by the staff at the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site and posted on the National Park Service Web site.

PBS’s American Experience series entitled “Reconstruction: The Second Civil War” includes a model contract that reveals some of the injustices typical of sharecropping arrangements.

Time magazine’s “100 Most Important People of the Century”. Jackie Robinson was named one of the twenty people who exemplify courage, selflessness, exuberance, superhuman ability, and amazing grace.

Books

Eig, Jonathan. Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007.

Margolick, David. Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink. New York: Random House, 2005.