Jim Crow Laws - Tuesday, November 3, 2015
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
The Jim Crow Laws were __________________________.
Some exampls were ___________,___________________, and _____________________.
John R. Salter (also known as Hunter Bear), a prominent civil rights activist and a university professor in Mississippi, described a Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, in which he participated in Jackson, Mississippi, as “the most violently attacked sit-in during the 1960s . . . A huge mob gathered, with open police support while the three of us sat there for three hours. I was attacked with fists, brass knuckles and the broken portions of glass sugar containers, and was burned with cigarettes.”
As a result of the sit-ins, cafes and lunch counters eventually ended their segregation policies.
Do you think you could carry out actions like these for a cause you believe in? Why or why not?
I think I ___________carry out actions like this because __________________.
• citizenship
• lawful permanent resident
• naturalization
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