Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j9QEdSG22768; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:39:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:39:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <003001c5da3b$6ce80dc0$55e2500a@air.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Mary Ann Corley" <macorley1@earthlink.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1581] Rosa Parks--Cross-Posted from the NIFL-ESL List X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1005 Lines: 21 Less than two months from the 50th anniversary marking the day she defied America's system of legalized segregation, Rosa Parks died. Refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, on the 1st of December 1955, she set in motion the dismantling of "Jim Crow Laws" which governed African-Americans. Using primary sources, including the actual minstrel song in which Jim Crow first appeared as an antebellum character and the letter in which President Lincoln wrote "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," this NIFL-recommended web site examines the laws, the people they governed and the 1896 Supreme Court case which authorized them. http://www.awesomestories.com/history/crow_laws/crow_laws_ch1.htm Although the site is subscription-based, it is free to educators, tutors, schools and libraries worldwide. Simply request an academic membership at the site's main URL: http://www.awesomestories.com/ Carole Bos, J.D. Grand Valley State University Dean's Advisory Board Editor, AwesomeStories
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