Source, Story, History: Another School Year, Another Lynching: African American Communities During the Great Depression

Introduction

Welcome to Source, Story, History, an online collection of primary sources drawn from the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Archival material enriches and complicates our understanding of American history. Each memo, photograph, and letter featured here tells a story about the United States.

This site contains letters, photographs, office memos, newspaper articles, hand-written reports, videos, and oral history audio clips relating to nine moment in American history in the post-Civil War period. Each selection is accompanied by a lesson plan that includes sample assignments and ideas for using primary sources in the classroom.

Reconstructing America, Reconstructing History: W.E.B. Du Bois' Vision of the United States after the Civil War	Another School Year, Another Lynching: African American Communities During the Great Depression	Steam Shovels and Picnic Shelters: Photographs of CCC Camps in Massachusetts
Women, Work and the War: Miriam Chrisman's World War II Letters	Defending Peace: W.EB. Du Bois in the McCarthy Era	Gay Paree: The Public Lives of Gordon Heath and Lee Payant, 1949-1976
Draft Help! Organizing Against the Vietnam War, 1967-1973	A Home at 88 Main Street: 1970s Counterculture in Massachusetts	Vivian Barfield, Assistant Director of Athletics: Title IX and the Fight Against Discrimination in Sports