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Mrs Donn's Special Section
Civil Rights Movement
Segregation

These stories really happened ..

Eye Witness Accounts
The Year: 1935 - Back of the Bus
The Year: 1945 - Welcome Home
The Year: 1955 - Rosa Parks


Mr. Donn's Lesson Plan:

Part One: Use the first two eye witness account stories (Back of the Bus and Welcome Home) 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 rollerblades at school.)

Part Two: Then bring in the Rosa Parks story to show how people can act to get unfair laws changed.


Time Frame: 1-2 days, 55 minute periods
Written for Grades 5-8, can easily be adapted for any grade


The Year: 1935

Back of the Bus

Reprinted by permission of the author, Dorothy Jones (written at age 11 in 1935)
No change has been made to this story.
It is exactly as it was written over 70 years ago by a little girl in rural Indiana.


ENTER






10 years later ...
The Year: 1945


Welcome Home

Reprinted by permission of the author, Dorothy Jones Scalzo (written at age 21 in 1945)
No change has been made to this story.
It is exactly as it was written over 60 years ago by the same author,
now a young wife, with a husband just home from World War II.

ENTER







10 years later ...
The Year: 1955


Who is Rosa Parks?
 

One day in December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
She was tired from a busy day at work. 
She was tired of sitting in the back of the bus.
But mostly, she was tired of the wrongness of things ...

ENTER




1945, Durham, North Carolina

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




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