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Crossing the Color Line

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Students watch the series "Unforgiveable Blackness". They analyze Jack Johnson's life to investigate the legal system and interracial relationships. They examine how segregation was threatened by peole allowing to marry ones out of their own race.

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9th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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