By Gloria Blair & Debra Crowe Click here after each animation The Past, The Present, The Progress By Gloria Blair & Debra Crowe

Click here after each animation 1st Transconti-nental Railroad The Past, The Present, The Progress Immigration Ellis Island Immigration Angel Island Homer Adolph Plessy John Marshall Harlan Westward Expansion 1820-1890 1840-1920 1849-1900 1850-1925 1856-1915 1860-1900 1861-1869 1863-1925 1868-1963 1877-1911 James Withers Sloss Migration Booker T. Washington 1st Transconti-nental Railroad W. E. B. Dubois

Click here after each animation TIMELINE INCLUDES AMERICAN HISTORY EVENTS. NAVIGATE BY CLICKING ON THE DATES ABOVE

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Alabama History CLICK MAP FOR HISTORY Click here after each animation Alabama History CLICK MAP FOR HISTORY

Click here after each animation Click on next slide to view each map quadrant Source: 1910 Rand McNally Handy Railroad Map.

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Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court Click here after each animation Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court Click on the picture to view the court case.

Click here after each animation Plessy v. Ferguson Click here after each animation Click on “facts” on the plan book to analyze the political cartoon. Now let's analyze the facts of this case.

Click here after each animation Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) "The object of the [Fourteenth] Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either." —Justice Henry Billings Brown, speaking for the majority Click picture for more details on Henry Brown

Click here after each animation Homer Adolph Plessy Homer Plessy Period: Struggle for Civil Rights (1877-1964) Born: March 17th, 1863 Died: March 1st, 1925 Articles: Plessy Story Sitting at the Dock of the Bay Homer Plessy in a Mixed Up Time

Click here after each animation Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Excerpts from the Dissenting Opinion of Justice John Marshall Harlan. While there may be in Louisiana persons of different races who are not citizens of the United States, the words in the act 'white and colored races' necessarily include all citizens of the United States of both races residing in that state. So that we have before us a state enactment that compels, under penalties, the separation of the two races in railroad passenger coaches, and makes it a crime for a citizen of either race to enter a coach that has been assigned to citizens of the other race. Thus, the state regulates the use of a public highway by citizens of the United States solely upon the basis of race. Click picture for more details on John Marshall

Click here after each animation Booker T. Washington Click “Up From Slavery” to view autobiography.

Click here after each animation W.E.B. Dubois Click “Dubois The Person” to view autobiography. Dubois The Person An Autobiography By W.E.B. Dubois

Click here after each animation Sloss Furnace Click here after each animation Click to view history.

Click here after each animation James Withers Sloss Click Sloss Furnaces to view biography.

First Transcontinental Railroad Click here after each animation Click picture to view history.

Central Pacific Railroad Click here after each animation Central Pacific Railroad Click track to view history and click picture to view biography.

Union Pacific Railroad Click here after each animation Union Pacific Railroad Click logo to view history and click picture to view biography.

Click here after each animation Promontory Point Click here after each animation Click map to view extract and click picture to view history.

Rail Lines Between The Atlantic & Pacific Click here after each animation Rail Lines Between The Atlantic & Pacific

Westward Expansion of the U.S. Click here after each animation Westward Expansion of the U.S.

Click here after each animation Angel Island Click here after each animation Click picture to view history.

Click here after each animation Ellis Island Click picture to view history.

Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans Click on each plan book to view a lesson. Click here after each animation Lesson Plans Click on each plan book to view a lesson. Lesson Plan 1 Lesson Plan 2 Lesson Plan 3

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