http://historyexplorer.si.edu/rss?key=resourcesSmithsonian's History Explorer Resources Related To "Pullman Porter's Blanket"http://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=204http://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=204<p>In this online exhibition, students will learn how racism, social attitudes and policies such as Jim Crow laws and poll taxes led to the Plessy v. Ferguson case which legalized segregation. <em>Segregated America</em> is the first section of the online exhibition entitled <a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/index.html">Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education<em>.</em></a></p>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:24:56 GMThttp://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=195http://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=195<p>In this classroom activity, students will identify and discuss the condition and aspirations of free African Americans in the years following the Civil War, identify the social factors that led to the rise of Jim Crow segregation and evaluate the effects of segregation. This lesson is part of the online exhibition entitled <a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/index.html">Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education<em>.</em></a></p>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:52:05 GMT