A Raisin in the Sun
Resources for All Topics (use these first)
Encyclopedia Britannica
World Book Encyclopedia
Gale US History
OPALS
Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun
Crash Course US History: Civil rights and the 1950s
Jim Crow Laws/Segregation
Segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Great Migration
Chicago
- Encyclopedia of Chicago: South Side
- Bronzeville: The Black Metropolis
- Chicago Black Renaissance Literary Movement
- Mapping Chicago's Racial Segregation
- Encyclopedia of Chicago: African Americans
- Chicago Public Library: Housing and Race in Chicago
- Video: Growing Up in Chicago during the Civil Rights Movement
Redlining
- StoryMaps: Redlining in South Side Chicago
- Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America
- Encyclopedia of Chicago: Redlining
- Digital Chicago: Racial restriction and housing discrimination in the Chicagoland area
- Chicago Mag: How redlining segregated Chicago, and America
- Video: How the US Government Segregated Chicago
- Video: Stories of Segregation-How redlining and housing segregation affected people's lives in St. Louis
- Fair Housing Act of 1968
- Family in Society: Buying the Family a Home
- Video: The house we live in: Redlining
- Video: New York, 1929-1941: Effects of redlining politics
- Video: Revolution '67: Bank Redlining & Block Busting
- Video: Suburban America: Suburbs and Minorities
- Article: NPR: A 'Forgotten History' of How the US Government segregated America
- Article: NYTimes: What is redlining?
- FiveThirtyEight: The Lasting Legacy of Redlining
1950s in US History
US Women in the 1950s
Civil Rights Movement
Langston Hughes