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- 6th - 12th
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Students examine Jim Crow laws using primary sources. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students, in groups, compare the length and severity of Jim Crow laws as they affected states from the South vs. states from the North. Groups then come together and compare the South, as a whole, to the North. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students analyze the role of the Jim Crow laws on race relations. As a class, they are segregated based on the color shirt they have or some other simple criteria and wear either a square or circle sticker representing the majority and minority. They read the story of an African-American who is the first to attend an all white school and write a response to end the lesson. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students will investigate and learn that even though freed slaves were suppose to be treated equally under the law as stated by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, they were not. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students engage in a lesson that is about the Jim Crow laws in the state of Virginia. They conduct research using a variety of resources and focus on defining the word "segregation" in context of the Reconstruction Period following the Civil War. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students engage in a lesson that gives examples of Jim Crow Laws in order to help them conduct research in order to find information. They use the information in order to take notes upon how the laws have had an impact upon society. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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Students examine the Jim Crow laws and how they impacted the lives of both African Americans and white Americans. They discuss the Civil Rights Movement and how their lives may have been different had it not occurred. Groups investigate a topic question and choose and activity to represent what they have discovered from their research. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students examine the experiences of Americans during the Jim Crow era, and listen to and discuss the book "Dear Willie Rudd" by Libba Moore Gray. They define discrimination and segregation, answer story comprehension questions, and write a reflection on their reactions to Jim Crow laws in a journal. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students explore how Jim Crow laws affected the lives of people living in the south during pre and post-Civil Rights. Using a various research methods, students research various aspects of the Jim Crow south and complete a graphic organizer. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students study the effects that segregation and the Jim Crow laws had on life in Virginia after reviewing the Reconstruction period. They list the effects that the Jim Crow laws had on the lives of African Americans such as unfair polling taxes, separate schools and facilities, and difficulty voting. Using websites, they research the effects of segregation and write a paragraph on the topic. Full Review »

