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The Judicial Branch: Dealing with Segregation

After the Civil War: Segregation
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec3/gr4/
unit6/u6g4l3.htm
Lesson Plan - Explain the purposes of the Emancipation Proclamation and the thirteenth amendment to the United States Constitution to understand the concept of segregation and recognize the effects it had on people in the South.

Contributions to the Nation: Progress of a People
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/97/crow/
stnation.html

Examine the listed documents and answer the questions provided in the learnging guide.

From Jim Crow to Linda Brown: A Retrospective of the African-American Experience from 1897 to 1953
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/97/crow/
student.html

Student activities guide.

Revisiting 'Separate but Equal' - Examining School Segregation 45 Years After Brown v. Board of Education
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/
19990614monday.html

Two Day Lesson Plan - Examine the struggle for desegregation during the Civil Rights Movement and a current study that finds that American schools are reverting to segregation. On the first day, examine the notion of 'separate but equal' by reading the New York Times front page from the Brown v. Board of Education decision and by researching different events, legislation and organizations that influenced desegregation. On the second day, assess ways in which race relations have and have not changed since this historic decision, examine the recent 'resegregation' study, and propose suggestions for addressing the school segregation issue to local, state or national leaders.


Segregation and Violvence: Progress of a People
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/97/
crow/stseg.html

Examine the listed documents and answer the questions provided in the learning guide.

Solving the Race Problem: Progress of a People
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/97/
crow/stsolve.html

Examine the listed documents and answer the questions provided in the learning guide.

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