Video Description: At first glance, the answer to our question “What Does Freedom Mean?” may appear obvious, but for black Americans living in America in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, the answer was restricted in many ways by Jim Crow laws designed to deny the freedom that was supposedly gained as a result of the Civil War and ensuing Constitutional amendments.  This program looks at some examples of those Jim Crow Laws and the steps that black Americans and their friends and allies took to fight against them and assert and make real the freedoms they deserved.  Our guest is civil rights and community activist Reverend Earl Nance, Jr., Pastor, Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church.

• Use the video as part of your study of African American history in a flipped learning activity and have students come to class prepared to share two insights gained by watching the video and two questions they’d like answered through their own or class research.
• Provide the video to students as they do an independent project related to African American history, baseball, or another topic addressed in the video. What primary source quotations and video excerpts can they use in their finished product.