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Digital History: The 14th Amendment and the Jim Crow Laws [Pdf]

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Read about the background of the passage of the 14th Amendment which resulted in the famous case before the Supreme Court, Plessy v Ferguson, almost thirty years later. Suggested student exercises ask students to assess the issue of discrimination and court precedent. [pdf]

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Concepts
black codes, jim crow laws, reconstruction
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14th amendment, equal but separate, equal protection under the law, freedmen, digital history, justice john marshall harlan, plessy vs. ferguson, plessy v ferguson, controversial supreme court decisions, important supreme court decisions, plessy v ferguson (1896)
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