Post- Reconstruction Period Write down your homework: Read your BC book for 25 minutes. Check that you are on track to reach your goal.

Quiz – 9/25 Phrases and Clauses Read and answer questions after reading a poem.

Warm-up: Courageous Choices Respond to the following quote with your thoughts: “The slave went free, stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.” -- W.E.B Du Bois

Warm-up: “A Moment of Courage” Complete the TOP of this handout. Read and “annotate” – write notes highlight words/phrases…not whole sentences. Complete the “What I Think” section

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* Review: Plessy vs. Ferguson Were Homer Plessey's rights violated when he was arrested for sitting in a whites-only train car. How did the Supreme Court Rule? Segregation is lawful as long as facilities are equal. What was the legal question?

Jim Crow Laws: Organizer Working as a table read over the laws handout. Place the laws on your web. You may create new categories or simply include them in the white space.

Separate Facilities:  Bus station waiting rooms and ticket windows  Railroad cars or coaches  Restaurants and lunch counters  Schools and public parks  Restrooms and water fountains  Sections of movie theaters  There were even separate cemeteries

Bus station, Durham, North Carolina, 1940.

Greyhound bus terminal, Memphis, Tennessee

A rest stop for bus passengers on the way from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee, with separate entrance for Blacks

A sign at bus station, Rome, Georgia

A highway sign advertising tourist cabins for Blacks, South Carolina

Cafe, Durham, North Carolina

Drinking fountain on the courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina

Movie theater’s "Colored" entrance, Belzoni, Mississippi

The Rex theater for colored people, Leland, Mississippi. June 1937.

Restaurant, Lancaster, Ohio

Water cooler in the street car terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Sign above movie theater, Waco, Texas

Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Texas sign

Dallas Bus Station

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“Moment of Courage” Turn the sheet over and complete the back.

Exit Ticket Write down one comment or question you have about the reading. Write down the page number you are on right now.