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Here is your Thanksgiving Break Assignment. The assignment is based on the following video, Racial Inequality: Remnants of a Troubled Time. Click HERE for a 30 day free trial to Discovery Learning.
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After you set up your account, please copy and paste the title of the video into your browser. After viewing the video, please complete the assignment below. Please note that the assignment can be done without the video.
Here's what you have to do.
1. If you have set up your account, watch the video Racial Inequality: Remnants of a Troubled Time,
2. Next, read excerpts from the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of
Education. Excerpts are available online at: http://www.landmarkcases.org/brown/opinion1.html.
Although Brown v. Board of Education made segregated schools illegal, it was a long
time before Southern schools were integrated. In 1955, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the ruling
and declared that schools should be desegregated with “all deliberate speed.” Despite this
ruling, many Southern schools remained segregated. Those that did integrate faced many
challenges, as did the black students who entered these schools.
So, here's the next step:
3. You will be exploring one of three early school integrations that tested Brown v. Board of Education. Choose ONE of the following to research.
• Autherine Lucy and the University of Alabama (1956)
• Little Rock Nine and Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas (1957)
• Ruby Bridges and William Frantz Elementary School, New Orleans, Louisiana (1960)
4. After you've researched their early school integration, ask them to write a personal essay
responding to what they read. After summarizing the events and the significance of the
integration, their essays should answer these questions:
• What challenges did these students face?
• What were some of their most poignant or surprising memories?
• How do you think you would have felt and responded had you been in their shoes
In addition to any available print resources, students may use the following Web sites to find
background information and personal stories.
Aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-aftermath.html
Autherine Lucy
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/leaders/marshallthrgd/lucy_1
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/chronology/details/560206.htm
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/race/030256race-ra4.html
Little Rock Nine
http://www.centralhigh57.org/index.html
http://teacher.scholastic.com/barrier/hwyf/mpbstory/index.htm
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ak1.htm
http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/features_school.html
http://www.teachersdomain.org/9-12/soc/ush/civil/lr9/
Ruby Bridges
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/race_relations/jan-june97/bridges_2-18.html
http://www.rubybridges.org/story.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/history/spotlight_september.html
Good Luck!
5 comments:
Autherine Lucy was a black female student who wanted to join the Alabama university. The school accepted her. Once they realized she was african-american, they told her she could not attend anymore. In 1955 the supreme court ruled that Lucy could go to the university. Then in 1956, a mob of people assembled on campus. They threw eggs on her and threatened her. She had to leave the campus by
a police car.
A man named marshall fought to get her into the university. She was allowed to gt in again but the the school used her lawsuit as an excuse to expel her.
After Lucy was expelled, Marshall was concerned about her safety and
brought her home to stay with him and his wife.
by Domenico
Is this for 8th grade or is it for the other grades that you teach?
Jonathan P.
802
during the time of segregation african-american children faced hardships in order to get an education. Many african-americans faced these hardships but it was a few who made history, Autherine J. Lucy was one of them.As a child she did everything a normal enslaved african-american child did which included working. she wanted to change the way she lived and set herself for a goal which was to attend the university of alabama. she got the attroney thurgood marshall and set off to the university of alabama doing everything she possibly could. In february 1956 while Autherine was enrolled in the university a mob of people assembled on the campus and threatened her, throwing rocks and different objects at her. the school officials couldnt handle all of the chaos and suspended her at the end of the day. autherines attorney thurgood marshall later filed a lwasuit against the university of alabama claiming that autherine should be placed in the school, but he practically lied and said more things to spice it up a little. autherine was accepted but was suspended right away because she had viloated the rules of the school by saying false statements about the university. autherine couldnt believe it/
at one point autherine said :"It felt somewhat like you were not really a human being. But had it not been for some at the university, my life might not have been spared at all." this really struck her because after all she was a human being being white or black it shouldn't have made a difference. if i was to be in any of the childrens shoes and faced this kind of racism i dont think i would have been as strong as autherine was, because she faced the world and she knew people were looking at her ike some kind of alien and criticizing her kind. she didnt care and kept on going until in one point she graduated from the university of alabama with her daughter. i think that autherine lucy's slogan shouldv'e been "chase after your dreams and never give up"
--angela rivera
2nd period :]
1. what challenges did these students face?
~they werent safe, people thrented them, people said things that werent true
2. what were some of their most poignant or suprising memories?
~ some of their most poignant or suprising memories was when mr. marshall and his wife took her in. "i just felt so secure with mr.marshall and his wife.. how greatful i have been over these years for the protection and kindness he gave to me."
3. How do you think you would have felt and responded had you been in their shoes?
~ I would have felt hurt and scared and responded by makeing changes and proving the people wrong.
Alyssa Longo
perod 2
Ruby Brigdes only wish was to gain an education but during the ealry 60's that was a problem in the south where she lived.
Ruby Brudges ived with her mother,father and siblings in New Orleans. All the Bridges childern went to a all black schoool, up untill the spring of 1960 when public schools were finally forced to desegregate. Brigdes took a test to see what students would be sent an integrated school in Septemeber.
Ruby passed the test and was to be sent to William Frantz Public Scgool in the fall. Her parents were having diffuculty decided whether or not to send Ruby. Her father said ther were asking for trouble when her other wanted Ruby to get a better education.
On Novmember 14 Ruby was to be the only black child going to William Frantz Public School. This was such a hot topic that Ruby and her mother were droved to the school because of a mob was feared. This was correct, as a mob was set up outside the school. Ruby was brave however as she stepped through the doors into her new school.
Ruby;s new first grade teacher Mrs.Henery greeted her warmly as she walked her up to her secondfloor classroom. Ruby was the only student in the class, but Mrs. Henry contuined with the class as if nothing was wrong.
As if the mobs werent enough, Rubys father was fired from his job and her grandparents ssuffered in Mississippi when they were thrown off the 25 acre plantation they worked on.
Ruby adored Mrs.Henry through her first grade year. To her it went by faster then she would have liked and as the year when by the protesting died down. When Ruby arrived back at school in September there was more students ,even some black but no Mrs.Hnery, She had moved back to Boston with her husband.
It was as if after that first year the story of Ruby Brigdes faded, but it didnt.
Soon after many people were wrting stories about her and Ruby was able to reunite with her long time favoritre teacher Mrs.Henry.
I think if I was Ruby Brigdes i dont know if i could have been so brave. She went into an all white school with no one but a teacher and learned. All she wanted to do was get the same education as white students, and she did. I really admired her strength not only as a person, but being a 6 year old and having the coruage to walk to school with a mob in the back of you and still be able to learn and make a friend for life in her teacher.
Allison OHagan
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