This collection enables students to explore the question "What is the legacy of Jim Crow?" through multiple sources. 

This collection uses the Project Zero thinking routines of Think, Feel, Care and Step Inside to help students see the system of Jim Crow from those who experienced it, comparing their ideas and perceptions of Jim Crow, and then drawing connections to the legacy of this system in today's America.  Students should examine each source, in order, utilizing the questions accompanying each source to create their own understanding or as discussion questions in small groups.  At the conclusion of this lesson/activity, students should discuss the essential question and identify actions to mitigate the negative legacy of Jim Crow.

Essential Question: What is the legacy of Jim Crow?

Standards:

VUS 8.d in the Virginia Standards of Learning: The student will apply social science skills to understand how the nation grew and changed from the end of Reconstruction through the early twentieth century by analyzing the impact of prejudice and discrimination, including "Jim Crow" laws, the responses of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and the practice of eugenics in Virginia.

JU 13 in Teaching Tolerance's Social Justice Standards: Students will analyze the harmful impact of bias and injustice on the world, historically and today.

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