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Peer reviewedMueller, Jean West; Schamel, Wynell Burroughs – Social Education, 1989
Traces the history of the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Includes copies of the U.S. Supreme Court mandate to the Louisiana Supreme Court denying Plessy's request to overturn the Jim Crow law and ordering him to bear the court costs. Provides teaching suggestions for interpreting the document and highlights related topics and questions for research and…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, History, History Instruction, Instructional Innovation
Ruderman, Jim; Fauver, Bill – 1991
This unit is one of a series that represents specific moments in history from which students focus on the meanings of landmark events. This unit focuses on the black experience in the critical years after Reconstruction. Using the landmark decision in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the unit opens with an examination of conditions in black America…
Descriptors: Black History, Blacks, Court Litigation, Grade 10
