Getting to Know Jim Crow

As a result of the end of Reconstruction and ultimately the Plessy ruling by the Supreme Court, new laws were passed in many parts of the United States called Jim Crow laws.

"Jim Crow was not a person, yet affected the lives of millions of people. Named after a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, "Jim Crow" came to personify the system of government-sanctioned racial oppression and segregation in the United States."
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 2002. Web. 26 November 2012. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/index.html

Today, you will work to explore that system.  Please follow the instructions to the attached webquest.  This will be submitted as an entry in your portfolio for this unit.
Jim Crow Webquest