The South Carolina Council for History Educations recommends the books, documentaries, articles, etc. below to help educators as they further their own knowledge on content they teach in the classroom. This page will be updated as new materials are recommended and discovered.
Books
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (2017)
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (2015)
- Stony The Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2019)
Documentaries
- 13th Netflix (2018)
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War PBS (2019)
- Slavery by Another Name PBS (2012)