The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow is the recipient of the 2003 Peabody Award and the 2003 IDA Achievement Award. The complete four-tape set is now available on the California Newsreel site at:
http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0147

Special discount for high school teachers and public libraries! Pricing: Colleges, universities, corporations and government agencies: $295.00. High schools, public libraries and qualifying community organizations: $99.00. Home use only (no public performance or classroom use rights): $79.95

jimcrowhistory.org is an educator's site that presents teachers with new historical resources and teaching ideas on one of the most shameful periods in American history, an era of segregation, violence, and disfranchisement of African Americans that tore at the very fabric of the nation.

Web Awards: Jimcrowhistory.org has been awarded the Golden and Platinum Web Awards from the International Association of Webmasters and Designers, and the Independent Ultraweb Level 3 Award.

2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court case that ended segregation in the schools and forever changed the landscape of our schools, and our society. Share the history of this ground breaking group of cases with students, using resources from this site including:

• An exclusive interview with Joan Johns Cobb, sister of Barbara Johns, the leader of the Moton High School student walkout in protest of sub-standard conditions at their all-black school
• Narratives of people, black and white, who lived through the Jim Crow years and desegregation
• A unit of study on the cases that comprised the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case
• An essay on the desegregation of Clinton High School in Tennessee, the first school in TN to desegregate post- Brown
• An essay and lesson on the Jim Crow laws pre- and post Brown
• Images of segregated classes and students, and pre- and post-Brown schools
• And much more!

And for additional information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow, the official PBS companion site to the series, for a rich array of resources for teachers, students, and general viewers.

New to the site? Tips for navigating your way through:

• Read From Terror to Triumph: Historical Overview in the newly restructured History section.
• Start with the Narratives for an up close and personal account of life under Jim Crow.
• Visit the Image Gallery with its themed collections.
• Go to the maps in the Geography Section for a holistic view on Jim Crow across America.