Mrs Donn's
Special
Section
Civil Rights Movement
Segregation
Eye Witness Accounts
These stories really happened
..
for Kids
& Teachers
Eye Witness
Accounts
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 nearly 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 nearly 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 Dorothy
Jones Scalzo (author, artist)
& Michael A. Scalzo (musician, aeronautical engineer),
Lin's wonderful parents
Thanks
for visiting! Have a great year!
Lin and Don
Donn
and Maxie the Magnificent, of course,
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