Grade Range: 6-12Resource Type(s): Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 7/7/2008
In this online exhibition, students will learn how racism, social attitudes and policies such as Jim Crow laws and poll taxes led to the Plessy v. Ferguson case which legalized segregation. Segregated America is the first section of the online exhibition entitled Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education.
Discussions, Multiple activities, Museum education, Teaching guides, Large Group instruction
Lessons & Activities
Part of a Pullman porter's job was to make up the sleeping berths in his assigned sleeping car, a...
constitution, Reconstruction, desegregation, Thirteenth Amendment, citizenship, Supreme court, Fifteenth Amendment, civil rights, 15 amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, 13th amendment, equal protection of the laws, discrimination, voting rights, Jim Crow, Separate but equal, racism, Segregation, Brown v. Board of Education, 14th Amendment
Connie, a fictional young girl, witnesses the student sit-ins at the lunchcounter in Greensboror,...
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