Episode 5

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"Civil Rights: Part 2"

This 15 minute episode explores Civil Rights in Virginia, focusing primarily on post Reconstruction through modern times. Discrimination, prejudice, “Jim Crow Laws” and “separate but equal” are examined, along with notable achievements of Maggie Walker, Arthur Ashe, and Governor Douglas Wilder.

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Early History

Jim Crow Laws

Post WWII

Virginia African Americans

 

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