SOURCES
- "Colored People North and Colored People South," letter to the editor, Frederick Douglass' Paper, December 14, 1855.
- "Frederick Douglass," c. 1865-1880, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Collection (accessed March 4, 2010).
- Gordon Parks, "Saint Augustine, Florida. Trainman signalling from a 'Jim Crow' coach," 1943, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Collection (accessed March 4, 2010).
- "A Jim-Crow car for Negroes only, Fayetteville, N.C.," 1929, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Collection (accessed March 8, 2010).
- "Race Policy Problem," Washington Post, September 30, 1913.
- "Woodrow Wilson," 1921, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Collection (accessed March 4, 2010).
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Fly Away Jim Crow
Instructions
Following the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, "Jim Crow laws," which discriminated against African Americans, were justified as offering "separate but equal" accommodations. Overturned in 1954 by the case Brown v. Board of Education, segregation began long before Plessy. Answer these questions on the history of Jim Crow.
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