The resources below will help you to answer the starter questions below and your own questions about segregation, Jim Crow laws, and the effectiveness of the Birmingham campaign. View sources on other pages for more detailed information on other aspects of confrontation in Birmingham in 1963.
Segregation question # 1 --
Segregation question # 2 --
Answer to segregation questions above and lots of other great information available in this article --
-- Background of segregation and turmoil in Birmingham, power of the KKK and Bull Connor, events of the Children's March and following period
More great resources for segregation, Civil Rights and confrontation
-- Supreme Court rulings and support for "separate but equal facilities", Jim Crow laws, Ku Klux Klan, demonstrations, arrests and more Supreme Court rulings
-- a review of segregation, Jim Crow laws, Civil Rights, protest, and confrontation
-- Constitutional amendments and Reconstruction followed by obstructive Supreme Court rulings and support for "separate but equal facilities" (Info very similar to beginning of the "Segregation Ordinances" article listed above)
-- a selection, or partial list, of segregation, "Jim Crow" laws on the books in Birmingham prior to their 1963 repeal
-- Newspaper article from the day after the Children's March -- reporters were still trying to figure out what had happened.
-- This is the slide show of bombing pictures we watched together in class
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