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Full Primary Source Set: Stony the Road: The Struggle Continues, 1896-1941, Lesson 4, Plainest Demands of Justice

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Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law”, 1893

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John Hope, “We are Struggling for Equality,” 1896

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W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk, 1903

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Giles v. Harris, 1903

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W.E.B. Du Bois, Niagara Movement Speech, 1905

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Map: Migrant Streams of the Great Migration, 1910-1930

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Residential Segregation in City Zoning Laws, 1910-1911

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Booker T. Washington, My View of Segregation Laws, 1915

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Images of the Silent Parade, July 28, 1917

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Chicago Race Riot Images, 1919

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A Man Was Lynched Yesterday Flag (Replica), 1920-1938

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Tulsa Race Massacre Images, June 1921

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Racial Restrictive Covenants, Chicago, 1924-1946

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Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, 1926

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Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to be Colored Me,” 1928

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Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”, 1936

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Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Underwriting Manual, 1938

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A. Philip Randolph, The Call to Negro America to March on Washington, 1941

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Bayard Rustin, Nonviolence vs. Jim Crow, 1942

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