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Perspectives on Desegregation

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Voices of Baltimore: Expectations

• Speculate how would it feel to know that you were selected or not selected to go to an integrated school? • Why do you think Ms. Evelyn J. Chatmon described herself as a

“bridge”? • Ms. Evelyn J. Chatmon makes reference to “speaking truth to power.”

What do you think this phrase means?

“I was first introduced to there is another world that is different than my own comfortable world.” Dr. Patricia Welch

• Why did Dr. Patricia Welch's teachers think she was not as smart as other students? • Ms. Treopia Washington Green's references her brother Ernest. Who was

he and why was his experience significant in Little Rock, Arkansas? How is this similar or different to the accounts in Baltimore ? • Dr. Walter Arthur Harris Gill describes a particular demographic group who

protested the most during school desegregation. Who does he reference and what climate did they evoke for the students integrating Poly? • Reflect on Dr. Patricia Welch’s realization “That I was first introduced to

there is another world that is different than my own comfortable world.” Have you ever had a similar experience or witnessed a similar experience?

Looking Back... Elizabeth Eckford & Hazel Bryan

Elizabeth Eckford

Hazel Bryan

David Sontag & the Little Rock Nine

The Big Take Aways

• What are the most important take-aways from the stories you have heard today? • How do these stories fit into the stories told by the documentaries we

watched at the beginning of the week? • Think about the newspapers we looked at covering the Brown

decision. Compare the tone of the reporting on Brown and the perspectives of the students who integrated the white schools?