Black Natchez Residents Combat Jim Crow | FRONTLINE

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Civics Civics Collection social studies civics and government government civ23 Natchez Mississippi Deacons for Defense and Justice Ku Klux Klan Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 nonviolence civil disobedience Black Power Jim Crow segregation self-defense slavery boycott Reconstruction American Reckoning FRONTLINE WGBH GBH
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History-Social Science
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Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Black Natchez Residents Combat Jim Crow | FRONTLINE

Learn how Black residents and the Deacons for Defense and Justice in Natchez, Mississippi, successfully combatted racial terror and Jim Crow laws in these videos excerpted from FRONTLINE. Through newsreel footage, archival photos, and interviews, these video segments explore how Black residents grew weary of the slow pace of desegregation after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and effectively used the strategies of self-defense and boycotts to end Jim Crow in Natchez.
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