in english class we are reading the book to kill a mocking bird. and we are learning the jim crow law. for the activity i had to read a narrative for a person who lived during the jim crow laws. the point that the story was trying to make was that blacks were treated wrongly whenever they do something that white people did not agree with. i learned that america was a very bad place in the past. go here to do the activity:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/tools_unwritten_colors.html#top