Calculated Acts: Civil Disobedience and Social Change | The African Americans

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Classroom Material
Keywords
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross mr13 African American History Plessy v. Ferguson Homer Plessy Reconstruction New Orleans civil disobedience segregation separate but equal
Subjects
History-Social Science
Grade Levels
Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Calculated Acts: Civil Disobedience and Social Change | The African Americans

In this lesson from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, students explore civil disobedience as a tool for social change, focusing specifically on Homer Plessy’s 1892 refusal to leave a “whites only” train car in New Orleans, which led to the landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
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PBS Learning Media

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