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Teaching With Laurel Grove School
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Teaching With Laurel Grove School

Collector: Ann V.
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The Laurel Grove school was established by freedmen and freedwomen after the United States Civil War. The school is now a museum and offers this collection of six lessons that use primary and secondary source materials to tell the story of slavery, the Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, life under Jim Crow laws, and segregated schools.

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booker t. washington, discrimination, equal rights, jim crow laws, racism, reconstruction, segregation, the confederacy, brown v. board of education, lynching, primary source analysis, primary source images, public education, secondary source analysis, sharecropping, the voting rights act, the reconstruction era, the united states civil war

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Grade
4th - 12th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.2 RH.6-8.9 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.9 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.9

Collection Items

    Slavery and Free Negroes, 1800 to 1860

    Slavery and Free Negroes, 1800 to 1860

    Lesson Plan
    A Look at Virginians During Reconstruction, 1865-1877

    A Look at Virginians During Reconstruction, 1865-1877

    Lesson Plan
    The Impact of the Jim Crow Era on Education, 1877–1930s

    The Impact of the Jim Crow Era on Education, 1877–1930s

    Lesson Plan
    Growing Up in a Segregated Society, 1880s–1930s

    Growing Up in a Segregated Society, 1880s–1930s

    Lesson Plan
    Founding of the Laurel Grove School and Other "Colored" Schools in Fairfax County, 1860–1890

    Founding of the Laurel Grove School and Other "Colored" Schools in Fairfax County, 1860–1890

    Lesson Plan
    The Daily Experience of the Laurel Grove School, 1925

    The Daily Experience of the Laurel Grove School, 1925

    Lesson Plan
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