A Brief History of Jim Crow
This Constitutional Rights Foundation reading with insightful discussion questions helps students to understand the impact of Jim Crow rules and their limitations on freedoms.
https://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/a-brief-history-of-jim-crow
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After Reconstruction
In this lesson, students use the collection's Timeline of African American History, 1852-1925 to identify problems and issues facing African Americans immediately after Reconstruction.

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/after-reconstruction/ MS – HS

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150 Years and Counting
This website by the National African American History Museum explores Reconstruction in depth. As newly freed African-Americans claimed their full rights as citizens, including the vote, they defined and demanded a new vision of American democracy based on principles of racial equality. This website points out the limits society placed on racial equality as white southerners reasserted power.
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/reconstruction/voting-rights  MS - Adult

Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow 

The Library of Congress has a huge section on African Americans, including 'voting rights for African Americans' which details how the 14th Amendment's grant of citizenship and the 15th Amendment's guarantee of voting rights were largely ignored until 1965's Voting Rights Act. Source materials, lessons, pictures are all included. https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/elections/right-to-vote

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An Interactive Timeline: Black Activism and the Long Fight for Racial Justice
Racial injustice is not a new phenomenon and neither is Black activism. This Choices Program Teaching with the News shows that the Black activism taking place across the country today has deep roots in the history of the United States. MS - Adult

https://www.choices.edu/teaching-news-lesson/an-interactive-timeline-black-activism-and-the-long-fight-for-racial-justice/

Jim Crow Laws
This History.com site provides an in-depth look at the codes and laws of segregation. Supplemental articles on each of the nine topics addressed further help students understand the oppression and limits to living that African Americans faced during the era of "separate but equal."  https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws  High School – Adult

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Jim Crow and Segregation  
This Library of Congress – Primary Source Teachers' Guide provides a rich set of images and documents along with suggested ways they could be used in the classroom.  https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/jim-crow-segregation/#teachers-guide   HS – Adult

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Rise and Fall of Jim Crow – Stories
This archived PBS site page links to stories and narratives by people who experienced Jim Crow practices.   https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories.html   MS – Adult

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The Jim Crow Museum
Here is a rich selection of lesson plans on topics that are part of the H-SS curriculum and other course work. They have been drawn from reliable sources such as the National Archives, and the National Park Service. https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/academics/courses/index.htm  HS - Adult

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Race and Voting in the Segregated South
This Constitutional Rights Foundation lesson provides background information on the way literacy tests and ancestry were used to limit African American voting rights in various parts of the southern U.S.. https://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/race-and-voting-in-the-segregated-south MS - Adult

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Many of last year's articles are included in this list.

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