Jim Crow Primary Sources
Historical documents. What clues can you gather about the time, place, players, and culture?

View these staggering lynching statistics, listed by state and race and covering the years spanning from 1882 to 1968.

A sermon delivered by Dr. Howard E. Jones, a white reverend, to his white congregation following the lynching murder of Ed Johnson, a Black man accused of rape.

Full text of Thomas Dixon's novel The Clansman, along with illustrations, and a biography of the author.

The full text of W. E. B. Du Bois' civil rights manifesto, The Souls of Black Folk.

The full text of Booker T. Washington's autobiography, Up from Slavery.

This is an essay written by Ida B. Wells-Barnett in 1900.

Here's an essay written by Ida B. Wells-Barnett in 1895.

This page includes a series of essays by Charles W. Chesnutt, a prominent Black author and activist.

Bishop Henry McNeal Turner's statement in protest of the Supreme Court ruling in The Civil Rights Cases of 1883.

Letter from Mrs. J. H. Adams, Macon, Georgia to the Bethlehem Baptist Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1918.

Letter from Cleveland Galliard of Mobile, Alabama to the Bethlehem Baptist Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1917.