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Charlottesville Syllabus

The KKK and the History of White Supremacist Groups

EBOOK Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction by Elaine Frantz Parsons
ISBN: 1469652137
Publication Date: 2019

The Ku Klux Klan in Virginia
A history of the KKK and its place in Virginia

Gentrification in Charlottesville

That World Is Gone: Race And Displacement in a Southern Town
A short documentary about the destruction of Charlottesville's Vinegar Hill neighborhood.

Charlottesville’s Confederate Statues

“Moments of Rupture”
Eileen Johnson's article on the local conflicts over the removal of the statue of Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park.
“Tools of Displacement”
The history of Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, and their role in displacing African Americans.

Slavery and Thomas Jefferson’s University

“Unearthing Slavery at the University of Virginia”
An examination of the history of slavery in the University of Virginia.
“Confronting U.Va.’s history of slavery: Administration, Charlottesville community consider reparations”
A discussion of what paying reparations to the descendants of former slaves might mean in the context of the University of Virginia

Jim Crow and Civil Rights organizing by UVa students

Black Fire
Alumni interviews. films, lectures, and other documentary evidence of student activism at the University of Virginia.