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Lufkin Students' Studies During Black History Month
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At Lufkin Road Middle School, students did online research on notable figures connected to Black History Month, summarized their contributions, and posted their findings online at a Blackboard discussion group for the class to read and offer comments. One class read the novel, The Watsons go to Birmingham, which takes place in 1963, at the height of the civil rights movement. Other students read Melba Pattillo Beal's memoir Melba's Choice about school integration in Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Some band classes began playing jazz music while other classes were introduced to the Blues. One team created a quilt of the people involved in the civil rights movement, made a mural depicting scenes from the civil rights movement, or a created an illustrated timeline of events that occurred during the civil rights movement after they studied the movement. One team acted out the play Warriors Don't Cry about the Little Rock Nine and the integration of Little Rock High School, following up with an illustration as a post-reading assignment. Classes studied Dr. Martin Luther King, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Charles Drew, Jesse Owens, Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, Hattie McDaniels, Hank Aaron, Steven Slade, President Obama and Langston Hughes. They studied the prejudices during World War II and the Holocaust and compared those to current prejudices in school and society. One team saw the play Heroes of the Underground Railroad, another saw Freedom Train, and two more saw Black Journey.
Thanks to Assistant Principal Camille Hedrick sharing her story on GotNews.
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