This Resources list is a work in progress! Check here for updates as the list develops. If you have suggestions on pertinent resources, please contact us via the "contact" page.
Charlottesville City Monuments
City of Charlottesville : Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials and Public Spaces Website Accessed July 7, 2017.
Blue Ribbon Commission Full Report Winter 2016
Blue Ribbon Commission Draft Report (short version) Winter 2016
What Can and Can't be Said: Race, Uplift and Monument Building in the Contemporary South, Dell Upton, 2015
Op-Eds and Editorials
“Excuse Me, America, Your House Is on Fire: Lessons from Charlottesville on the KKK and ‘alt-Right.’” Medium.com, June 27, 2017.
“Moments of Rupture: Confederate Monuments and a Southern Town’s Search for Its Identity | The Politic.” April 12, 2017.
From Sylvanaqua Farms, May 17, 2017
The Erasure of Native Americans, Karenne Wood in the Daily Progress, July 20, 2017
This Is Not a Lynch Mob: Charlottesville and the KKK, John Mason, July 7, 2017
Podcasts on Charlottesville
Homegrown-The Morning After with Lisa Woolfork and Jenna Hockman, August 13, 2017
Permanent Exhibits
Black History and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond
The Mere Distinction of Colour, James Madison's Montpelier
Life in the Neighborhood, First floor of the Jefferson School City Center
Mulberry Row, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Pride Overcomes Prejudice, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
Walking Tours, Visitor's Guides, and Apps
Daughters of Zion Cemetery Audio Tour
Slavery at the University of Virginia: Visitor's Guide
Jefferson School African American History Walking Tour
Slavery at Monticello: Life and Work at Mulberry Row
Digital Maps
Land Ownership by Race, Rivanna District, Albemarle, about 1940 prepared by Robert Vernon
Louisa County Historical Society Maps
History of Ivy Creek Natural Area prepared by the Ivy Creek Foundation
Native American History in Charlottesville/Virginia
First People, The Early Indians of Virginia, Keith Egloff, Deborah Woodward, 1992
The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail, Edited by Karenne Wood, 2009
We're Still Here, Contemporary Virginia Indians Tell Their Stories, Sandra F. Waugaman and Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, 2000
African American Genaeology and Family Stories
Beyond Kin Podcast with Franzine Taylor
The Coachman - a film by Lorenzo Dickerson
Research at the National Archive and Beyond, Live talk show with Bernice Bennett
African American Burial Sites
African American Cemeteries in Albemarle and Amherst Counties, database
Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia, Lynn Rainville, 2014
Perpetual Neglect: The Preservation Crisis of African-American Cemeteries, Places Journal May 2017
Antebellum Free Black History in Charlottesville
Powerpoint Presentation on Free People of Color in Albemarle County in the 18th Century by Robert Vernon
Slavery in Charlottesville/Virginia
Digital Archive of Comparative Slavery
Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narratives Project, Vol. 17, Virginia, Library of Congress, 1936-1938
Narratives of Slavery, University of Virginia 2016
Slavery and its Legacies Webcast, Yale University
Slavery at Jefferson's University, University of Virginia
Slaves at the University of Virginia, Gayle Shulman, 2005
Slaves, Freedpeople and the University of Virginia, Catherine Neale, 2006
The Hemingses of Monticello: an American family, Annette Gordon-Reed, 2008
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, Edward Baptist, 2014
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: an American controversy, Annette Gordon-Reed, 1997
Those Who Labor for My Happiness: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Lucia Stanton, 2012
Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865, Philip Schwartz 1988
Unearthing Slavery at the University of Virginia, Virginia Magazine, spring 2013
Unearthed and Understood, short film by the University of Virginia President's Commission on Slavery and the University
Lynching in Charlottesville/Virginia
The Lynching of John Henry James, a summary from Charlottesville City Council Agenda May 15, 2017, see pages 65-67
Memorial for Peace and Justice, Equal Justice Initiative
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century, Sherrilyn Iffil, 2007
Education in Charlottesville
Albemarle's Black Classrooms - documentary by Lorenzo Dickerson
Albemarle schools to use $20k grant to fund study of historical, societal significance of monuments, Daily Progress, July 14, 2017.
Pride Over Prejudice, Edited by Andrea Douglas, PhD
Race and Ethnicity in Education, journal website for educators
Strange fruit indeed: Interrogating contemporary textbook representations of racial violence towards African Americans, Teacher's College Record, 2010.
The Color Line of Scrimmage- documentary by Lorenzo Dickerson
Urban Renewal in Charlottesville
That World is Gone - short documentary film on Vinegar Hill
In the Streets of Vinegar Hill, William A. James, Sr., 2007
Life in the Neighborhood, Gundars Osvalds - available at Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Alumni room
The Vinegar Hill Project, Scot French and Bill Ferster, University of Virginia
Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia: an oral history of Vinegar Hill, Saunders and Shackelford, 1998.
Housing in Charlottesville
PHAR Residents' Bill of Rights for Redevelopment - statement adopted by Charlottesville City Council in 2008
We Call These Projects Home, Solving the Housing Crisis from the Ground Up, A Right to the City Alliance Report on Public Housing, May 2010
Reimagining Friendship Court - Charlottesville Tomomorrow January 2019
Criminal Justice in Charlottesville/Virginia
13th, directed by Ava DuVernay, 2016
Just Mercy, Brian Stevenson, 2014
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander, 2010
Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s, Risa Goluboff, 2016
Immigration in Charlottesville/Virginia
DACA Fact Sheet, Legal Aid Justice Center (also in Spanish)
Whiteness and White Supremacy in Charlottesville
Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940, Grace Elizabeth Hale
The Artifacts of White Supremacy, Kelly J. Baker in Forum, June 2017
White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo, 2011
On Talking to Children About Race
Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves, Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards, 2010
Because of Them We Can
Childrens' Books that Tackle Race and Ethnicity, The New York Times, Sept 23, 2016
EmbraceRace.org
Social Justice Books, a Teaching for Change Project
Teaching for Change Booklist
Interpreting Histories for the Public
Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement, Barbara Little and Paul A. Shackel, 2007
Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites, Julia Rose, 2016
Representations of History in Contemporary Culture
Cultural Haunting: Ghosts and Ethnicity in Current American Literature, Kathleen Brogan, 1998
Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture, Lisa Woolfork, 2008
On Being Podcast with Annette Gordon-Reid and Titus Kaphar, June 29, 2017
Readings from the #Charleston Syllabus
many, many resources here on all manner of topics relating to race, history, and the American social fabric
http://www.aaihs.org/resources/charlestonsyllabus/