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African-American Women Recall Subtle Methods of Resisting Segregation
During the Jim Crow era, when overt resistance could lead to a lynching, many black people found subtle ways to combat the humiliation that they were daily subjected to. For Georgia Sutton, methods of coping included maintaining a cheerful facade [...]
An African American Remembers Growing Up in Segregated Louisiana
The Jim Crow system emerged during Reconstruction, when Southern legislatures controlled by whites adopted laws designed to deprive African-Americans of their basic rights and keep the races separated in nearly every sphere of social life. In this [...]
African Americans Workers and Conflict on the Homefront worksheet
This worksheet helps students analyze three primary sources as part of the activity "African American Workers: Conflict on the Homefront."
Black Codes Restrict Newly Won Freedom
In the fall of 1865, white southerners, most of them ex-Confederates and planters, won large majorities in local and state elections throughout the South. They quickly passed a series of restrictive laws, or Black Codes, which varied only slightly [...]
Background Reading on Segregated Buses
This short reading can help students and teachers understand the experience of riding segregated public transportation.
Examples of U.S. Laws Requiring Racial Segregation (short version, with text supports)
From the 1880s to the mid 1960s, many states passed laws requiring the segregation [separation] of white and "colored" [African American] people. (African Americans were also referred to as Negroes at that time.) These laws ruled nearly all aspects [...]
What Was Jim Crow?
This activity introduces students to the term Jim Crow and the concept of legally mandated racial segregation.