Part One: Use the first two stories, Back of the Bus and Welcome Home written by Dorothy Jones Scalzo, to show your students that many people did not like or even understand segregation but still obeyed the law. Have your class discuss laws that are unjust or unfair (maybe talk about curfews or riding bikes and roller blades at school.)

Part Two: Then bring in Lin's write-up on Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott to show how people can act to get unfair laws changed.

Related Lesson Plan: What was the law? Plessy v Ferguson 1896 

This Special Section is dedicated to two Purdue University graduates -
Dorothy Jones Scalzo (author, artist)
& Michael A. Scalzo (musician, aeronautical engineer),
Lin's wonderful parents

1945, Durham, North Carolina