Teacher’s Guide
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Jim Crow in America Teacher's Guide (PDF, 2.15 MB)
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Primary Sources
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(6.02 MB)Oliver Scott’s Refined Negro Minstrels
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(313 KB)What a Colored Man Should Do to Vote
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(1.9 MB)Al. G. Field Greater Minstrels
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(314 KB)Airship with a Jim Crow Trailer
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(786 KB)Wants ‘Jim Crow’ Law All Over the United States
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