Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: The Origins of Jim Crow Introduction

9th - 10th
Who or what was Jim Crow? Kim discusses the origin of Jim Crow segregation in the American South. [6:33]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Compromise of 1877 Plessy v. Ferguson

9th - 10th
Federal troops left the South after the Compromise of 1877, ending Reconstruction. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896. [7:58]