Brown v. Board of Education: Segregated America Lesson

Grade Range: 4-12
Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Lessons & Activities
Date Posted: 7/7/2008

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 Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education.


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