Oakridge Sixth Grade Class of 2010

Taking a Stand Lesson 2: Life under Jim Crow

January 6th, 2010 · 59 Comments

Add your thoughts to this VoiceThread. What do you think it was like living under “Jim Crow” laws that separated blacks and whites.

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Taking a Stand: Lesson 1 The American Civil Rights Movement

January 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Share some things you’ve learned or already knew about the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950 and 1960s. Please send at least two complex or compound sentences, or three simple sentences.
Photo Credit: “Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was photographed by Alabama cops following her February 1956 arrest during the Montgomery bus boycotts.” on flickr.

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