Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j9Q5K1G01778; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:20:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:20:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <s35ed8ae.045@BG_NW1.bosglazier.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Carole Bos" <cbos@bosglazier.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:11183] Rosa Parks and "Jim Crow" with Primary Sources X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.4 Status: O Content-Length: 1011 Lines: 12 Less than two months from the 50th anniversary marking the day she defied America's system of legalized segregation, Rosa Parks died. Refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, on the 1st of December 1955, she set in motion the dismantling of "Jim Crow Laws" which governed African-Americans. Using primary sources, including the actual minstrel song in which Jim Crow first appeared as an antebellum character and the letter in which President Lincoln wrote "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," this NIFL-recommended web site examines the laws, the people they governed and the 1896 Supreme Court case which authorized them. http://www.awesomestories.com/history/crow_laws/crow_laws_ch1.htm Although the site is subscription-based, it is free to educators, tutors, schools and libraries worldwide. Simply request an academic membership at the site's main URL: http://www.awesomestories.com/ Carole Bos, J.D. Grand Valley State University Dean's Advisory Board Editor, AwesomeStories
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