Class Project
Southern Life - Pre-Civil Rights Movement.
The purpose of this research project is to understand the roles and circumstances of various "character types" in southern culture after the Civil War but before the Civil Rights Movement. The general era we are are looking at is the 1930s to 1950s, though we may gain insight from research outside of that time frame.
Choose one of the following:
- white sharecroppers
- black sharecroppers
- white businessman
- southern lady
- white schoolchildren
Research and MLA Help - click here.
Books
Southern Life - Resource List of library books on Destiny
Go to vcs.follettdestiny.com to look for more books.
Books for this project will be on the reserve cart and may not be checked out from the library.
Databases
EBSCOHost History Reference Center - great for images as well as information. Choose "MLA Citation" when printing or emailing to cite images.
EBSCOHost High School Student Research Center - login info available from your teacher or librarian
SIRS Issues Researcher - login info available from your teacher or librarian
Internet Sources
American History Online
Center for the Study of Southern Culture at Ole Miss
American Photography: A Century of Images
New Georgia Encyclopedia
You Might Be a Southern Lady if...
Southern Belles
Sharecroppers
Whites Remember Jim Crow
Encyclopedia of Alabama
ThinkQuest Go to "preparation" and click on young white southern female" in the text.
