A good overview of the reforms that were instituted not only in Georgia, but in the entire country during the Progressive Era. Read a history of the beginnings of progressivism, the people involved, and a recounting of the various...

Read Booker T. Washington's controversial speech arguing the importance of material advancement over integration for African Americans. He believed freed slaves needed to start at the bottom of the economic scale before moving up to...

Highly detailed article concerning this famous era. Historical significance is addressed and a well-written analysis of many authors.

This site about the Harlem Renaissance includes audio and video files. A great resource that discusses many aspects of the Harlem Renaissance including African American education, politics, literature, and philosophy.

This unit revolves around various social realist authors during the Gilded Age in America. Click the tabs for the list of authors, timeline, video and activities.

Teach the history of Civil Rights using this comprehensive learning module. Trace the movement from the 14th Amendment to modern times. The focus is on African American rights but also touches on women and disabled American's rights....

This tribute article discusses the author as a professor, critic and Poet Laureate.

This site includes the author's credits as an editor and playwright, a biography, and links to three of his books.

A listing of the Jim Crow laws and understood Jim Crow etiquette found across the South in the late 19th century.

Detailed account of the writer's life. Contains references to contemporaries, influences and motivations in her career.

A speech by Mary Church Terrell, a letter by Booker T. Washington, a letter by W.E.B. DuBois, and the Niagara Movement's Declaration of Principles describe African American civil rights strategies in the early-twentieth century.

Article outlining the ideas, life and career of W.E.B. Dubois.

A Troubled Peace, the sequel to L. M. Elliott's award-winning Under a War-Torn Sky, chronicles nineteen-year-old U.S. Air Force pilot Henry Forester's adventures in France from March through July 1945. Although Henry safely returned from...

Selected (6) reading passages (grades 8-12) to pair with "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams. After losing her family estate to creditors, Blanche DuBois moves in with her younger sister, Stella, and her working class...

A chapter that explores how white perceptions influence African American identity. Although granted freedom, citizenship, and suffrage by the Civil War amendments, W. E. B. Du Bois explains how the emancipated black person had yet to be...

The resources examines images that illustrate and challenge black stereotypes of the late-nineteenth century, primarily focusing on W. E. B. Du Bois' African American photographs assembled for the 1900 Paris Exposition.

Essay in which W. E. B. Du Bois discusses the need for a black elite. This essay, "The Talented Tenth" is provided, illustrating his efforts to improve the social standing of African Americans.

Chapter in which W. E. B. Du Bois examines the state of African Americans between 1861 and 1872. He reviews the period from 1861 to 1872 as the "dawn of freedom," focusing on the Freedmen's Bureau, its promise, achievements, and doom.

Here you will find theme, perspective, form, style, and contrast comparison. Good research material!

Although this site is intended for teachers in class preparation, it is information packed and has thought provoking questions at the end.

This site, which is provided for by the University at Buffalo, gives the text of three of the poems of this famous Harlem Renaissance author.

Biographical summary of the early life and career of educator and civil rights activist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. While living in Georgia, he wrote some of his best-known works on black social conditions.

Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise Speech is one of the most significant speeches in American history. Read the background of the speech, why it was controversial then and now.

PBS offers a brief, but well-written, biography of the famous Harlem Renaissance author.