Videos about Jim Crow Laws and The Scottsboro Trials
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
This short video will give you some background into the Jim Crow Era of American History, an era full of injustice and mistreatment. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the 1930's during the Great Depression, at a time when the Jim Crow era was beginning to come to a close.
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
This is a documentary about the Scottsboro Trial that rocked the nation in the early 1930's. Nine young African American men were wrongfully accused and found guilty of a terrible crime and sentenced to death. This documentary offers an in depth exploration of the trial and America during that time period.