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"People waiting for a bus at the Greyhound bus terminal"
Photographers working for the Farm Security Administration Historical Section (later transferred to the Office of War Information) were encouraged to document continuity and change in many aspects of life in America during the years the unit was in [...]
Tags: Segregation
Item Type: Photograph
Historical Era: Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Map of Chicago's "Double Shift Schools," 1961
Chicago's School Board insisted that its overcrowded schools were not segregated and that there was no pattern of discrimination against black students. Activists in the 1950s and 1960s produced numerous reports that proved otherwise, documenting [...]
What Was Jim Crow?
This activity introduces students to the term Jim Crow and the concept of legally mandated racial segregation.
Tags: Lessons in Looking, Segregation
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Historical Era: Modern America (1914-1929)