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To Kill a Mockingbird Research Project and Presentation: About Jim Crow Laws, Scottsboro Trials and Racism of the Time

Destiny Library Catalog

Collection for Jim Crow Laws
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Social Welfare History Project

Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation

Constitutional Rights Foundation

A Brief History of Jim Crow

Scottsboro Trials

Scottsboro Trials Information

PBS American Experince

The Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

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National Endowment for the Arts

NEA Reader Resources for TKAM
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Smithsonian | National Museum of African American History and Culture

The Scottsboro Boys

About Jim Crow Laws & Racism of the Time

PBS Video

PBS Video - Southern Reaction 1960

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

PBS Series
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