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Charlottesville City Monuments
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City of Charlottesville : Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials and Public Spaces Website Accessed July 7, 2017.
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Blue Ribbon Commission Full Report Winter 2016
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Blue Ribbon Commission Draft Report (short version) Winter 2016
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What Can and Can't be Said: Race, Uplift and Monument Building in the Contemporary South, Dell Upton, 2015
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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.
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“Moments of Rupture: Confederate Monuments and a Southern Town’s Search for Its Identity | The Politic.” April 12, 2017.
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From Sylvanaqua Farms, May 17, 2017
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The Erasure of Native Americans, Karenne Wood in the Daily Progress, July 20, 2017
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This Is Not a Lynch Mob: Charlottesville and the KKK, John Mason, July 7, 2017
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Podcasts on Charlottesville
Homegrown-The Morning After with Lisa Woolfork and Jenna Hockman, August 13, 2017
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Permanent Exhibits
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Black History and Cultural Center of Virginia, Richmond
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The Mere Distinction of Colour, James Madison's Montpelier
Life in the Neighborhood, First floor of the Jefferson School City Center
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Mulberry Row, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Pride Overcomes Prejudice, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
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Walking Tours, Visitor's Guides, and Apps
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Daughters of Zion Cemetery Audio Tour
Slavery at the University of Virginia: Visitor's Guide
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Jefferson School African American History Walking Tour
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Slavery at Monticello: Life and Work at Mulberry Row
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Digital Maps
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Land Ownership by Race, Rivanna District, Albemarle, about 1940 prepared by Robert Vernon
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Louisa County Historical Society Maps
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History of Ivy Creek Natural Area prepared by the Ivy Creek Foundation
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Native American History in Charlottesville/Virginia
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First People, The Early Indians of Virginia, Keith Egloff, Deborah Woodward, 1992
The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail, Edited by Karenne Wood, 2009
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We're Still Here, Contemporary Virginia Indians Tell Their Stories, Sandra F. Waugaman and Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, 2000
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African American Genaeology and Family Stories
Beyond Kin Podcast with Franzine Taylor
The Coachman - a film by Lorenzo Dickerson
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Research at the National Archive and Beyond, Live talk show with Bernice Bennett
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African American Burial Sites
African American Cemeteries in Albemarle and Amherst Counties, database
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Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia, Lynn Rainville, 2014
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Perpetual Neglect: The Preservation Crisis of African-American Cemeteries, Places Journal May 2017
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Antebellum Free Black History in Charlottesville
Powerpoint Presentation on Free People of Color in Albemarle County in the 18th Century by Robert Vernon
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Slavery in Charlottesville/Virginia
Digital Archive of Comparative Slavery
Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narratives Project, Vol. 17, Virginia, Library of Congress, 1936-1938
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Narratives of Slavery, University of Virginia 2016
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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
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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
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: an American controversy, Annette Gordon-Reed, 1997
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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
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Unearthed and Understood, short film by the University of Virginia President's Commission on Slavery and the University
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Lynching in Charlottesville/Virginia
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The Lynching of John Henry James, a summary from Charlottesville City Council Agenda May 15, 2017, see pages 65-67
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Memorial for Peace and Justice, Equal Justice Initiative
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On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century, Sherrilyn Iffil, 2007
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Education in Charlottesville
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Albemarle's Black Classrooms - documentary by Lorenzo Dickerson
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Albemarle schools to use $20k grant to fund study of historical, societal significance of monuments, Daily Progress, July 14, 2017.
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Pride Over Prejudice, Edited by Andrea Douglas, PhD
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Race and Ethnicity in Education, journal website for educators
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Strange fruit indeed: Interrogating contemporary textbook representations of racial violence towards African Americans, Teacher's College Record, 2010.
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The Color Line of Scrimmage- documentary by Lorenzo Dickerson
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Urban Renewal in Charlottesville
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That World is Gone - short documentary film on Vinegar Hill
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In the Streets of Vinegar Hill, William A. James, Sr., 2007
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Life in the Neighborhood, Gundars Osvalds - available at Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Alumni room
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The Vinegar Hill Project, Scot French and Bill Ferster, University of Virginia
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Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia: an oral history of Vinegar Hill, Saunders and Shackelford, 1998.
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Housing in Charlottesville
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PHAR Residents' Bill of Rights for Redevelopment - statement adopted by Charlottesville City Council in 2008
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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
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Reimagining Friendship Court - Charlottesville Tomomorrow January 2019
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Criminal Justice in Charlottesville/Virginia
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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
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Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s, Risa Goluboff, 2016
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Immigration in Charlottesville/Virginia
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DACA Fact Sheet, Legal Aid Justice Center (also in Spanish)
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Whiteness and White Supremacy in Charlottesville
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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940, Grace Elizabeth Hale
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The Artifacts of White Supremacy, Kelly J. Baker in Forum, June 2017
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White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo, 2011
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On Talking to Children About Race
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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
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Interpreting Histories for the Public
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Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement, Barbara Little and Paul A. Shackel, 2007
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Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites, Julia Rose, 2016
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Representations of History in Contemporary Culture
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Cultural Haunting: Ghosts and Ethnicity in Current American Literature, Kathleen Brogan, 1998
Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture, Lisa Woolfork, 2008
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On Being Podcast with Annette Gordon-Reid and Titus Kaphar, June 29, 2017
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Readings from the #Charleston Syllabus
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many, many resources here on all manner of topics relating to race, history, and the American social fabric
http://www.aaihs.org/resources/charlestonsyllabus/
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