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THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW

You will access different websites to answer the following 6 questions. Please DO NOT copy and paste answers. Your answers should be in your OWN words. They can be either typed or handwritten (neatly).

[|Jim Crow Laws] Be sure to read what the typical Jim Crow laws were, as compiled by the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site Interpretive Staff. 1. What were the Jim Crow Laws? General, not specific. 2. List two rules of etiquette that blacks were expected to follow. 3. What did the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson legitimize?

[|A Century of Segregation Interactive Timeline] Use this interactive timeline to read about segregation from 1863-1954. Find the Great Depression and click on it - read about it. [|List of Events] In this list of events, find the Great Depression and click on it. 4. What was the Great Depression? Give three facts about the Great Depression.

[|Interactive Maps Jim Crow Laws] Look at each topic areas: Jim Crow Laws, Colleges & Universities, Population & Migration, and Lynchings & Riots Roll over the state of Alabama to find out information about what was going on specifically in that state. Pay special attention to the topic of Jim Crow Laws. 5. List two interesting facts that you learned about the state of Alabama.

Eyewitnesses to Jim Crow. Go to this site and read at least four of the personal stories. There are many "categories" on this page, you may want to try the first five categories. 6. What is your reaction to their stories? For three of the stories you read, give a brief summary of who, what, where, when. Jim Crow Stories