CRFC THE AMERICAN JURY
BULWARK OF DEMOCRACY
About the Project
Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago
Chicago Historical Society
National Endowment for the Humanities
AN ONLINE RESOURCE GUIDE
Resources from the Chicago Historical Society
Lessons and Activities

Jury Trials for the Classroom

Resources
from the Chicago Historical Society


Web Resources

Print Resources

Site Index

HISTORY AND PURPOSE

Origins of the American Jury

Formation of the American Jury

STRUCTURE

Introduction to Trial by Jury

Grand Jury

Right of the Accused to Trial by Jury

Jury Selection: Voir Dire

Jury of One's Peers

Jury Deliberation

ISSUES

Evidence

Jury Nullification

Jury Trials and the Media

Jury Damage Awards

Comparative Jury Systems

FUTURE

Jury in American Society

Jury Reform

Future of the American Jury

This page contains an alphabetical listing of visual resources from the
CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY which may be used in conjunction with related lessons.
All materials (c)2000 the Chicago Historical Society. The images and texts featured on this Web site are provided for educational and research uses only. Permission to reproduce these works for other purposes or to republish them in any form must be granted in writing by the Chicago Historical Society.

An Impartial Jury: Legal Requirement or Idealistic Goal?
Letter from Thomas Furlong page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4

Analyzing the Haymarket Riot
August Spies' Autobiography cover page, text (33 pages)
Albert Parson's Autobiography cover page, text (52 pages)
Voir Dire of A. C. Werle text (12 pages)
Voir Dire of Charles Ludwig text (10 pages)

Bringing the Scottsboro Boys Into the U.S. History Classroom
"Setting him right", Southern Worker, May 23, 1931
"Scottsboro mass defense to fight on to victory" and "Boys in Kilby say they will stick to International Labor Defense", Southern Worker, June 21, 1931
Fundraising broadside for the defense of the Scottsboro boys page 1 page 2
Theodore Dreiser, donation solicitation, May, 1931
Telegram to the Associated Negro Press from the ILD, June 22, 1931
Langston Hughes, Scottsboro Limited with illustrations by Prentiss Taylor
* Cover page
* Title page
* "Justice"
* Untitled illustration
* "Scottsboro"
* "The Town of Scottsboro"
"Norris arraigned; trials to be 'quick job', says the Judge", Daily Worker, November 25, 1933 1
"Decatur Judge upholds barring of Negro jurors: keeps all-white panel.", Daily Worker, December 23, 1933 page 1 page 2
Journalist John L. Spivak's letter to Claude Barnett, April 19, 1933
Roy Wilkins' Letter to Dean Prattis, May 9, 1933, page 1 page 2
Series of John Spivak Telegrams, November 27, 1933 (10 telegrams)
10:30 a.m. 10:31 a.m. 10:46 a.m. (1, 2) 11:14 a.m. (1, 2) 11:42 a.m.
12:00 p.m. 12:19 p.m. 12:21 p.m. 1:07 p.m. 3:20 p.m.
Scottsboro Income and Expenditures, ILD, April 11, 1931-August 31, 1934
Herman J.D. Carter, The Scottsboro Blues
* Cover page
* Inside cover page
* Title page
* "The Scottsboro Blues"
* A Voice from Scottsboro" and "The Blacker Christ" page 1 page 2
* "The New Christ"
Attorneys Leibowitz, Chamlee, Brodsky telegram to President Roosevelt
"Negro jurors are assured in Alabama", United Press Asssociation, April 5, 1933
Burck, "Judge Callahan..." cartoon, Daily Worker, December 1, 1933
Petition to Alabama Governor Bibb Graves, May 20, 1935 page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4
"South slow to revamp juries", 1935
"White boy says testimony used to convict is false" The Kansas Call, ca. 1933-1934
Sasha Small, Six Long Years, ILD, 1937 page 1 page 2
Anna Damon Scottsboro Juries
, ILD, 1937

Good Men and True? Lesson on the Voir Dire in the Haymarket Trial
Voir Dire of A. C. Werle text (12 pages)
Voir Dire of Charles Ludwig text (10 pages)
August Spies, portrait
Images of counsel for the state and counsel for the defendants:
William Perkins Black, defense
William Foster, defense
Moses Salomon, defense
Sigmund Zeisler, defense
Edmund Furthman, prosecution
Jullius S. Grinnell, prosecution
George C. Ingham, prosecution
Francis W. Walker, prosecution
Judge Joseph E. Gary
Images of the jury:
Portraits of the Jury 1
Portraits of the Jury 2
Scene of the Chicago bomb throwing and vicinity
Paul C. Hull, "The Chicago Riot" cover page, text (33 pages)
Thure de Thulstrup, "The Anarchist Riot in Chicago"
"Good Men and True", The Chicago Mail, June 25, 1886 page 1 page 2
Joseph E. Gary, "The Chicago Anarchists of 1886" cover page, text (35 pages)

Guilty as Charged? The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
Fundraising letter signed by John Nicholas Beffel
Fundraising petition
"Sacco and Vanzetti Face the Electric Chair"
"Shall These Workers Die?
"The Fangs at Labor's Throat"

Haymarket Affair: Exercises with the Jury
Voir Dire of A. C. Werle text (12 pages)
Voir Dire of Charles Ludwig text (10 pages)
Joseph E. Gary, "The Chicago Anarchists of 1886" cover page, text (35 pages)
Paul C. Hull, "The Chicago Riot" cover page, text (33 pages)
Thure de Thulstrup, "The Anarchist Riot in Chicago"
A. R. Parsons: sentenced to death
John Peter Altgeld
August Spies: murder
Michael Schwab: murder
Paul Morand, "Principals in the Haymarket Riot"
Samuel Fielden: murder
"Good Men and True"

If You Could Create the Pefect Jury, What Would It Look Like?
Langston Hughes, Scottsboro Limited with illustrations by Prentiss Taylor
* Cover page
* Title page
* "Justice"
* Untitled illustration
* "Scottsboro"
* "The Town of Scottsboro"
Burck, "Judge Callahan..." cartoon, Daily Worker, December 1, 1933
Petition to Alabama Governor Bibb Graves, May 20, 1935 page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4
"South slow to revamp juries", 1935
"White boy says testimony used to convict is false" The Kansas Call, ca. 1933-1934

Sam Sheppard Trial
Letter from Thomas Furlong page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4