life in Crow law era America theme
We are shown a reasonable idea of what life might have been like for ordinary people in American (especially the South) during the time when Jim Crow laws mandated various kinds of racial segregation, i.e., roughly 1877 to 1954.
Examples
In "Daughters of the Dust" (1991), we saw the lives of an extended black family on a former slave plantation island off the coast of Georgia in 1902.
2 total · 1 choice · 1 major
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Daughters of the Dust (1991) | choice | The viewer is shown how some Black people lived on their former plantation island in 1902, Georgia, America. |
| theamericanshortstory07 | major | The story is set on a Georgia farm in the 1940s and explores the relations between its white owner, Mrs. Mcintyre, and her black workers. |