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educator resources

Further Readings (pdf document)

This bibliography appears at the end of Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (2001), the first book to result from the Behind the Veil Project. The bibliography consists of scholarly books and articles written about various aspects of African American life during segregation and is organized to correspond with the chapter headings in Remembering Jim Crow.


BTV Articles and Books Database (pdf document)

The Behind the Veil Project office at the Center for Documentary Studies maintains a large collection of articles and books on African American life during segregation. The collection currently includes over 800 articles and books. While physical access to the collection is restricted to BTV staff, the database that catalogues the works is provided here for researchers. The database is particularly useful for individuals looking for scholarly articles published during the first half of the twentieth century, as BTV staff members have made a special effort to find works that may not appear in other electronic databases or in more recently published bibliographies. Works are listed alphabetically by author and include title information and the publication date (when available) as well. Some entries may lack full publication information, but these details, as well as newer citations, will be added periodically.


American Communities Course

In the fall of 1997, the Center for Documentary Studies sponsored an undergraduate seminar entitled American Communities: An Oral History Approach. Taught by Paul Ortiz, the graduate research coordinator for the Behind the Veil Project, the seminar provided a unique opportunity for undergraduate students to interview older African Americans in Durham, North Carolina, about their experiences during segregation. The interview tapes that resulted from the course are deposited in the John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African American Documentation at the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, as are transcripts excerpts from each interview. The American Communities Web page contains biographical sketches of eight interviewees as well as audio excerpts from the interviews.