History Kids: Jim Crow Laws and the Birth of Civil Rights
History Kids - Grades 4 - 9
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Learn all about Jim Crow laws and the birth of civil rights in the United States. What were Jim Crow laws? What does "separate but equal" mean? What was the Reconstruction Era and what did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 actually accomplish? What was the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson? What were the contributions of Booker T. Washington, WEB Du Bois, Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren and Martin Luther King, Jr.? What were the Civil RIghts Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965? The answers to all of these questions and more are covered in depth with exciting video and dynamic graphics that reinforce important concepts.
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