Lesson Plans

The Jim Crow Museum is currently working on developing Lesson Plans that are specifically designed to correlate with the museum experience. The museum would also like to provide teachers with other resources that may be helpful in teaching American history that impacted the Jim Crow era.

African American Achievement

• New Philadelphia: A Multiracial Town on the Illinois Frontier
• Photographs of the 369th Infantry and African Americans during World War I
• The Blues and Langston Hughes
• The Many Faces of Paul Robeson
• Two American Entrepreneurs: Madam C.J. Walker and J.C. Penney

Civil Rights

• A Call to Action: Responses to Civil Rights
• A Famous Person and Event are Revealed
• Boston Public Schools Civil Rights Curriculum
• Civil Rights 1960's
• Court Documents Related to Brown v. Board of Education
• Court Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis Sanitation Workers
• Eyes on the Prize Lesson Plans
• From Segregation to Sit-ins: the Greensboro Woolworth Lunch Counter
• Frontiers in Civil Rights: Dorothy E. Davis, et al. versus County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia
• Integration of the U.S. Armed Forces
• JFK, Freedom Riders and the Civil Rights Movement
• Just an Environment or a Just Environment? Racial Segregation and Its Impacts
• Martin Luther King Jr. Lesson plans
• Mrs. Jackson's Letter
• National Civil Rights Museum Teacher resources
• The Crafting Freedom Materials Project
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
• The Freedom Riders and the Popular Music of the Civil Rights Movement
• The Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March: Shaking the Conscience of the Nation
• The Suffrage and the Civil Rights Reform Movements
• We Shall Overcome

Jim Crow

• After Reconstruction: Problems of African Americans in the South
• African American Identity in the Gilded Age: Two Unreconciled Strivings
• Baseball, Race and Ethnicity: Rounding the Bases
• Baseball, Race Relations and Jackie Robinson
• BASES DIVIDED: SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION IN BASEBALL
• Birth of a Nation, the NAACP, and the Balancing of Rights
• Building New York
• Chicago's Black Metropolis: Understanding History Through a Historic Place
• Founding of the Laurel Grove School and Other "Colored" Schools in Fairfax County, 1860-1890
• GROWING UP IN A SEGREGATED SOCIETY, 1880S-1930S
• Homecoming, African-American land loss and a chronicle of black farmers from the Civil War to the present
• Is it Really a Mockingbird?
• Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Removing the Mask
• "Jazz is About Collaboration": Jim Crow Laws And Segregation
• Jim Crow and the Virginia Indians
• Jim Crow and segregation
• Jim Crow in America Teachers Guide
• Jim Crow Laws Lesson Plans on Lesson Planet
• JIM CROW AND THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS
• Jim Crow Laws and Discrimination
• Justice and the Jim Crow Laws
• Learning the Hard Way: Examining School Segregation Around the world
• Martin Puryear's Ladder for Booker T. Washington
• Revisiting 'Separate but Equal'
• Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
• The History of Jim Crow: Legal Racism in America
• The Impact of the Jim Crow Era on Education, 1877-1930s
• The NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom
• The Negroes' temporary Farewell: Jim Crow and the Exclusion of African Americans from Congress
• The rise and fall of Jim Crow (PBS)
• Thinking About Segregation and Integration
• To Kill a Mockingbird: A Historical Perspective
• Teachers Domain (registration required) Dozens of Lesson plans, Videos and more. Searchable by topic.

PBS The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Lesson Plans

• Resistance to Slavery
• Causes and Effects of Abolition
• Civil Disobedience and Social Change
• Life After the Emancipation Proclamation
• It Takes Courage to be Weak
• African-American Histories Since the Civil Rights Movement

Reconstruction

• A LOOK AT VIRGINIANS DURING RECONSTRUCTION, 1865-1877
• Reconstruction
• Reconstruction Lesson plans from The National Archives
• Was Reconstruction a Revolution?

Slavery

• Frederick Douglass "What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
• Slavery and Emancipation: Federal Document Sources from Atlanta, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia
• Slavery and the American Founding: The "Inconsistency not to be excused"
• SLAVERY AND FREE NEGROES, 1800 TO 1860
• Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record
• Slavery in America
• Women in the Civil War: Ladies, Contraband and Spies

Courses that use the JCM

• What Was Jim Crow? Reading-Learning Plan  Auburn University
• Separate But Equal? The Jim Crow South  University of West Georgia
• Writing Africa: Comparative African and European Palavers and Perspectives  Summer Seminar for High School Teachers - Central Michigan University (PDF)
• What Was Jim Crow? Pre-reading Essay Activity  PDF
• Teaching Diverse Populations and Fieldwork St. Johns (Fla.) River Community College PDF
• Teen Leadership: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
• Telecourse Writing Assignment Collin County Community College District (Texas) PDF
• Internet Reading for Invisible Man American School Foundation of Monterrey, Mexico PDF
• From the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age: The Formation of Modern American Culture, 1877-1929 (Intro) University of Toronto at Mississauga PDF
• From the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age: The Formation of Modern American Culture, 1877-1929 (Syllabus)
  University of Toronto at Mississauga PDF
• The Power of Protest  Learning to Give (an innovative educational initiative seeking to maintain and enhance a civil society)