Salma didn't want to visit Montgomery!"

An Integrated, Interdisciplinary, Thematic approach to teaching from segregation to civil rights in Virginia After the Civil War and the period known as "Reconstruction" the social, economic and political gains that African Americans had made were eroded by a landmark case "Plessy vs. Ferguson" and the "Jim Crow Law". Racial discrimination and segregation became the tools to economically subjugate African Americans. Finally with the Supreme Court decision "separate was not equal" desegregation became the law nationally.