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National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent federal agency responsible for preserving and making available the permanently valuable records of the Federal government.
The agency's 33 facilities hold about 21.5 million cubic feet of original textual materials--that's more than 5 billion pieces of paper from the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government. The National Archives multimedia collections include nearly 300,000 reels of motion picture film, more than 15 million maps, charts, architectural drawings and aerial photographs, more than 200,000 sound and video recordings, nearly 14 million still pictures and posters, and over 100,000 electronic records files.
Many of these records relate to the history of Jim Crow.
Lesson Plans: Since the late 1970s, the National Archives education program has provided educators with the methods and materials for teaching with documents. See lessons that relate to the history of Jim Crow.
Document Analysis Worksheets: Education specialists at the National Archives have designed and developed worksheets to guide the analysis of primary sources. Included are worksheets designed for documents, photographs, cartoons, posters, maps, artifacts, sound recordings, and motion pictures.
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/analysis_worksheets/worksheets.html
Prologue Articles: For more than 30 years, the quarterly journal Prologue has been bringing readers the rich resources and programs of the National Archives, its regional activities, and the Presidential libraries. Many of its articles relate to the history of Jim Crow.
NAIL Database: NAIL contains information about a wide variety of NARA's holdings across the country. Although NAIL contains more than 3,000 microfilm publications descriptions, 607,000 archival holdings descriptions, and 124,000 digital copies, it represents only a limited portion of NARA's vast holdings. To view sample documents and photographs from the National Archives, visit NAIL. Conduct a keyword search using terminology representative of the Jim Crow era such as NAACP, Jim Crow, Segregation, Civil Rights, and others.
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/nail/index.html
Digital Classroom Home Page: This NARA site provides teachers with lesson plans and resources for National History Day, using the rich resources from the National Archives.
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html
National Archives Home Page: Among the treasures available here are the cornerstone documents of the U.S. Government:
http://www.archives.gov
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