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Cultural Impact of Jim Crow Laws and the Civil Rights Movement Lesson PlanCultural Impact of Jim Crow Laws and the Civil Rights Movement Lesson Plan
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Cultural Impact of Jim Crow Laws and the Civil Rights Movement

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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.

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jim crow laws, reconstruction, the civil rights movement

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civil rights movement, jim crow laws, social studies
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Grade
3rd - 4th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Lesson Plans
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