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Social Studies: Segregation, Jim Crow Laws,  Plessy vs. Ferguson Lesson PlanSocial Studies: Segregation, Jim Crow Laws,  Plessy vs. Ferguson Lesson Plan
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Students examine the concept of segregation. In this civil rights instructional activity, students discuss the separate but equal theory as well as the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision. Students also research women of the Civil Rights Movement and Jim Crow laws.

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jim crow laws, reconstruction, segregation

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8th - 11th
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Social Studies & History
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