The New South | How the Monuments Came Down

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Monuments Statues Monument Avenue American History Southern History Black History South Richmond Virginia African American Civil War Lost Cause slavery debate social order Capital of the Confederacy Jim Crow Laws black resistance
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History-Social Science
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Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Classroom Teacher / Educator
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The New South | How the Monuments Came Down

Learn how enslaved African Americans in Richmond, Virginia, established what a historian in this clip calls “quasi-free communities, where they etched out lives for themselves, that paved the way forward.” 

 
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PBS Learning Media

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