September

3 Introductory session

10 From Emancipation to Segregation: Building the Jim Crow South

C & O Railway, Crozet, 1913

Howard N. Rabinowitz, "From Exclusion to Segregation: Southern Race Relations, 1865-1900," Journal of American History, Vol. 63, #2 (Sept. 1976), pp. 325-350. (available on-line at J-Stor Journal of American History archive) Edward L. Ayers, Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 132-159 Kevin Gaines, Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1996, pp. 19-46. Janette Thomas Greenwood, Bittersweet Legacy: The Black and White "Better Classes" in Charlotte, 1850-1910. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1994, pp. 77-113.

--Class to be divided into teams.

17 History and the World Wide Web

• Bianca P. Floyd, "U. of Maryland Scholars Study Racial Gap in Technology Access," Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 20, 1996, p. A19.
• Bianca P. Floyd, "Scholars are Eager to Increase Ranks of Black-Studies Sites on the Internet," Chronicle of Higher Education, April 7, 1997.
• Leonce Gaiter, "Is the Web Too Cool for Blacks?," Salon Magazine, June 5, 1997.
• Michael O'Malley and Roy Rosenzweig, "Brave New World or Blind Alley? American History on the World Wide Web,"Journal of American History, Vol. 84 (June 1997), pp. 132-155.
• Andrew McMichael, Michael O'Malley, and Roy Rosenzweig, "Historians and the Web: A Guide," AHA Perspectives, Vol. 34 (Jan. 1996), pp. 11-15.

--Introductory HTML workshop

24 On Local Sources

• Joshua D. Rothman, "Essay on Sources: African-American Life in Charlottesville, 1890-1920."
• Guide to Archives and Sources for Historical Research on Albemarle County, ca. 1890-1940

--Discussion of local archives and sources. Teams expected to have met during the previous week to discuss their projects, and should be prepared to venture some preliminary ideas for their websites and what sorts of sources might be useful for their topics.

--Advanced HTML workshop.

October

1 On African-American Photographs and Photography

Deborah Willis, ed., Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography. New York: New Press, 1994, pp. 42-53, 72-79, 152-157. Fredric M. Miller and Howard Gillette, Jr., "Race Relations in Washington, D.C., 1878-1955: A Photographic Essay," Journal of Urban History, Vol. 21, #1 (Nov. 1994), pp. 57-85. James Guimond, American Photography and the American Dream. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991, pp. 21-53. (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4)

Holsinger's University Studio, Charlottesville

--Assignment: Browse the Holsinger studio website. Select one or more photos from Holsinger collection that you find interesting and be prepared to discuss what the photograph suggests about black life in early 20th cent. Charlottesville, what kinds of questions we might ask about this photograph and its subject(s), how a website built around the selected photograph(s) might look, and what kinds of sources might be used in support of such a site.

--Workshop on scanning and the use of images.

8 Education and Churches

Rev. G.O. Seay, Dec. 24, 1913

James D. Anderson, Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1988, pp. 148-237. (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5) (part 6) William A. Link, A Hard Country and a Lonely Place: Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870-1920. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1986, pp. 173-194. William E. Montgomery, Under their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865-1900. Baton Rouge, LSU Press, 1993, pp. 333-351. Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York: Knopf, 1998, pp. 378-403.

--Preliminary site proposals due on the web

15 Criminal Justice and Extralegal Violence

• James Goodman, Stories of Scottsboro. New York: Vintage Books, 1994, pp. 3-98.
• Grace Hale, Making Whiteness: the Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940. New York: Pantheon, 1998, pp. 199-239. (footnotes and photo also available)

22 Mid-semester Presentations

--Demonstration of work in progress by teams: be prepared to give a web-based presentation of your work thus far, to discuss your intentions for future research and website development, and to give constructive comments and suggestions to other teams on their efforts.

29 Readings: Politics and Political Leadership

• Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1996, pp. 147-224.
• Gaines, Uplifting the Race, pp. 47-99, 128-151.

November

5 Labor and Migration

Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present. New York, Basic Books, 1985, pp. 79-151. Robin D.G. Kelley, "'We Are Not What We Seem': Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South," Journal of American History, June 1993, pp. 75-112. Daniel Letwin, "Interracial Unionism, Gender, and 'Social Equality' in the Alabama Coalfields, 1878-1908," Journal of Southern History, Vol. 61, #3 (August 1995), pp. 519-555.

Kitchen, Lyndall Apartments, 1916

12 Worshop class

19 Workshop class

26 Thanksgiving (no class)

December

3 Workshop class

10 Final project presentations. Location TBA.